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hantel

hantel is the alternative form of hantle.

Meaning of hantle

Noun

hantle (plural hantles)

  1. (Northern, Scotland, UK) A considerable number or quantity; a great many; a great deal.
    • An Irish creature, Erbert Ellison was the name, ran the place for the trustees, he said, but if you might believe all the stories you heard he ran a hantle more silver into his own pouch than he ran into theirs.1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 15

Forms of hantel

pluralhantels

Questions about hantel

What is hantel the alternative form of?
Hantel is the alternative form of hantle.

Words near hantel in the dictionary

  1. Hantai
  2. hantaviral
  3. hantavirus
  4. hantaviruses
  5. hanted
  6. hantel
  7. hantels
  8. Hanthorpe
  9. hanting
  10. hantkeninid
  11. hantkeninids

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