benting time

== English == === Noun === benting time (countable and uncountable, plural benting times) (archaic, agriculture) The season (midsummer, apparently), when pigeons were said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe. === References === “benting time”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.