lant

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”).

noun

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

verb

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

Etymology 2

noun

1. (UK, dialect, Northern England) Obsolete form of lanterloo. (the card game)
   Did Mr. Ellershaw speak to Mr. Marsden, when he was playing at lant with you? 1834, Sandford Tatham, Alexander Fraser, A Verbatim Report of the Cause Doe Dem. Tatham V. Wright

Etymology 3

Compare lance.

noun

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).