Definition of "ent"

[…] and that fine young ent Quickbeam is merely a minor crux in an Old English glossary (the name Quickbeam means 'living tree' in Old English).

2003, Walter Scheps, “The Fairy-tale Morality of The Lord of the Rings”, in Jared Lobdell, editor, A Tolkien Compass

But this should not lead to complete avoidance, as if it is like some dire incursion of triffids or ents.

2003, Allen Paterson, Trees for Your Garden, page 180

Somewhere, ents and manitous laugh grimly For, despite all this, the trees lasted much longer Than most of the presents, and all of the holiday spirit.

2003, Robert Dunn, Horse Latitudes, page 98

Hello, my good friend, myself I present. Not human, nor tree, for I am an ent.

2006, John Allran, Men of Their Word, page 37

In The Lords of the Rings there are dark forces in the forest—the Huorn. Huorn are ents who have become more treeish, gone rogue. They can still move and speak, but only with the ents.

2017, Inga Simpson, Understory‎, Hachette UK

A Truro correspondent remembers being sent to buy a teapot with the admonition 'and see he got a good ent to un'; that is, of course, a good 'pour'."Enting down with rain" is still occasionally heard.

1976, K. C. Phillips, Westcountry Words and Ways, Newton Abbot: David & Charles, page 47