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Lant

//lænt// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Abbreviation of Atlantic (Atlantic Ocean). abbreviation, alt-of
  2. 2
    A surname from Middle English.
Noun
  1. 1
    Aged urine, historically used by the Anglo-Saxons and others as fertilizer for high nitrogen content. uncountable
  2. 2
    Obsolete form of lanterloo (the card game). Northern-England, UK, alt-of, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable

    "Did Mr. Ellershaw speak to Mr. Marsden, when he was playing at lant with you?"

  3. 3
    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).
Verb
  1. 1
    To flavor (ale) with aged urine. obsolete, transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

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”).

Etymology 3

Compare lance.

Etymology 4

Perhaps from Middle English langet, a derivative of lang (“long”), denoting someone who lived by a long strip of ground.

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