Lant Definition

noun

Aged urine.

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(UK, dialect, Northern England) Obsolete form of lanterloo. (the card game)

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Any of several species of slender marine fishes of the genus Ammedytes. The common European species (A. tobianus) and the American species (A. Americanus) live on sandy shores, buried in the sand, and are caught in large quantities for bait.

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verb

(obsolete) To flavor (ale) with aged urine.

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Origin of Lant

  • Alteration of earlier land (“urine”), from Middle English land (“urine”), from Old English hland (“urine”), from Proto-Germanic *hlandą (“urine”), from Proto-Indo-European *klān- (“liquid, wet ground”). Cognate with Icelandic hland (“urine”), Norwegian land (“urine”).

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  • Compare lance.

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Lant Sentence Examples

  • But the boy proving too sensitive for the life of a public day school, was sent to Bristol to the private academy of Dr Lant Carpenter, under whom he studied for two years.

  • Two sermons, preached in the college chapel in 17 9 8 and 1799, form the basis of his Discourses on the Scriptural Doctrines of Atonement and Sacrifice (1801); a polemic against Unitarian theology which was answered by Lant Carpenter.

  • Public opinion was against lant, the king, and the small army which his confidant De Vere raised under the royal banner was easily scattered by Gloucesters forces at the rout of Radcot Bridge (Dec. 20, 1387).

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Words Starting With

LLALAN

Words Ending With

TNTANT

Unscrambles

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Words Starting With L and Ending With T

Starts With L & Ends With TStarts With LA & Ends With TStarts With L & Ends With NT

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4 Letter Words4 Letter Words Starting With L4 Letter Words Ending With T