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語源 1

Alteration of earlier land (“urine”), from 中期英語 *land (“urine”), from 古期英語 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”).

名詞

lant (uncountable)

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

   Synonym: sig

動詞

lant (third-person singular simple present lants, present participle lanting, simple past and past participle lanted)

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

語源 2

名詞

lant (uncountable)

1. (UK, dialect, Northern England) Obsolete form of lanterloo (the card game).
   • 1834, Sandford Tatham, Alexander Fraser, A Verbatim Report of the Cause Doe Dem. Tatham V. Wright:

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

語源 3

Compare lance.

名詞

lant (plural lants)

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).

同意語

• launce
• sand eel
• sand lance

参照

• “lant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Nat'l, natl.