dompt
English
Verb
dompt (third-person singular simple present dompts, present participle dompting, simple past and past participle dompted)
- (transitive) To hold off; to keep at bay.
- 1977, Grahame Clark, World Prehistory: In New Perspective, page 236:
- Another knife-handle, this time of ivory from Gebel el-Arak, has been carved to show on one face combats between men and boats with standards and upturned ends and on the other a man dompting two lions.
- 1987, Ann Elizabeth Farkas, Prudence Oliver Harper, Evelyn Byrd Harrison, Monsters and Demons in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds (page 16)
- For unknown reasons, the motif of a dompted pair of serpo-felines became the emblem of Cusae, a town in Middle Egypt […]
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