Definitions
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- noun A slow-burning
match ortorch . - noun
Smoke withflames , especially from apipe .
Etymologies
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Examples
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April 14, 2008 at 7:17 am pursonly, eek sprekun kleinuh Deutch das eek in dem Amerkannur gross-shoole ge-lunt.
In the darkest depths of Mordor… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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I personally indulge in cigars I wish I could use “lunt” the next time our Cigar Club meets and usually have at the ready C.H.
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De sad der, de to, i saa lunt et hus ved host og i venterdage,
The Master Builder 2008
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Widdrington at Chevy – Chase; but as for fire-raising, there was not so much as a lighted lunt amongst us, save the match which the dragon had to light the burning tow withal, which he was to spit against Saint
The Abbot 2008
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De sad der, de to, i saa lunt et hus ved host og i venterdage,
The Master Builder 2008
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Meanwhile the foreign captain had taken the lunt in his own hand to fire the largest cannon, such a cannon as none of the Cossacks had ever beheld before.
Taras Bulba 2003
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The _tourteau goudronné_ (lit. "tarred coke") is merely a ring formed of old lunt or of cords well beaten with a mallet (Fig. 10).
Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 Various
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Od, if they burn the Custom-house, it will catch here, and well lunt like a tar-barrel a thegither.
Chapter XLVIII 1917
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Till butter'd sow'ns, [19] wi 'fragrant lunt, [smoke]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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She fuff't her pipe wi 'sic a lunt, [puffed, smoke]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
qms commented on the word lunt
Now smoking’s become an affront
My pipe is a prop and a stunt
I clench and caress it
And (dare I confess it?)
Pretend I can still puff a lunt.
March 4, 2018