lant

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

To flavor (ale) with aged urine.

Synonyms

launce

lants

lance

American sand lance

lawnce

Pronounced as (IPA)

/lænt/

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”).