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lant.

Aged urine, historically used by the Anglo-Saxons and others as fertilizer for high nitrogen content.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

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noun/lænt//lɑːnt/

  1. Aged urine, historically used by the Anglo-Saxons and others as fertilizer for high nitrogen content.

    uncountable
Where this word comes from

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

verb/lænt//lɑːnt/

  1. To flavor (ale) with aged urine.

    obsolete · transitive
Where this word comes from

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

noun/lænt//lɑːnt/

  1. Any of several species of slender marine fishes of the genus Ammodytes, including the common European species (Ammodytes tobianus) and the American species (Ammodytes americanus).

Where this word comes from

Compare lance.

noun/lænt//lɑːnt/

  1. Obsolete form of lanterloo (the card game).

    Northern-England · UK · alt-of · dialectal · obsolete · uncountable
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