lant

Plural: lants

Noun

Aged urine, historically used by the Anglo-Saxons and others as fertilizer for high nitrogen content.
Obsolete form of lanterloo (the card game).
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

To flavor (ale) with aged urine.

Origin / Etymology

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”).

Synonyms

launce, sand eel, sand lance, sig

Scrabble Score: 4

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lant: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 0

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