Obs. exc. dial. Also 5 lente, 7 lenth, 9 length. [f. lent, pa. pple. of LEND.] The action of lending; loan.
14[?]. in Arnolde, Chron., 281. That for ye most part the conuenable seson of themploynge of the good lente was passed.
1646. Mass. Col. Rec. (1853), II. 163. Maior Nehemiah Bourne … is granted ye lent of one drake from Dorchestr.
1682–3. Hartland Ch. Acc. (Hartland Gloss.), Pd for the lenth of two sarges 1s. 6d.
a. 1704. De la Pryme, Diary (Surtees), 163. Thanking him exceedingly for the lent thereof.
1740. Twells, Life Pocock (1816), I. 207. Upon the lent of Mr. Pocock’s copy.
1797–1805. S. & Ht. Lee, Canterb. T., III. 456. Owens offered him the lent of his scythe.
1883. Hampsh. Gloss., Lent, length, the loan of a thing.
