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lavants

lavants is the plural of lavant.

Meaning of lavant

Noun

lavant (plural lavants)

  1. (UK, dialectal) A shallow or more or less intermittent spring, or the stream of water (bourne) which feeds and springs forth from such a spring.
    • Lavants, are land springs, which break out much, on the downs of Sussex, Hants, and Wilts. The country people say, that when the Lavants rise, corn will be dear; meaning, that when the earth is so glutted with water as to send[…]1815, James Dallaway, A History of the Western Division of the County of Sussex: Including the Rapes of Chichester, Arundel, and Bramber, with the City and Diocese of Chichester, page 112
  2. (UK, dialectal) A violent flow or rush of water.
    • How it did rain! It ran down the street in a lavant.

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Questions about lavants

What is lavants the plural of?
Lavants is the plural of lavant.

Words near lavants in the dictionary

  1. lavandulyl
  2. lavanduquinocin
  3. lavani
  4. Lavans
  5. lavant
  6. lavants
  7. Lavanya
  8. lavaproof
  9. Lavar
  10. lavaret
  11. lavarets

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