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lunt

/lʌnt/

lunt noun: a slow-burning match or torch.

Noun

lunt (plural lunts)

  1. A slow-burning match or torch.
    • In the mean time, however, he himself (understand; the young Nobilis) had seen that a fine smoke issued from the nostrils of the steed, and as he stooped down, he had immediately pulled forth a lunt, almost of a finger's length, the which was yet burning, and which a knave had privily poked into...1844, E. A. Friedlænder (translator), The Amber Witch [1838, Abraham Schweidler (Wilhelm Meinhold), Maria Schweidler, die Bernsteinhexe], page 90
    • Bent down and saw I was right. A lunt up the bugger’s nose. A lunt? said Doctor Copper. Almost as long as your left forefinger, yes, said his visitor. Still burning.1969, Robert Nye, Tales I Told My Mother
  2. Smoke with flames, especially from a pipe.

Verb

lunt (third-person singular simple present lunts, present participle lunting, simple past and past participle lunted)

  1. (Scotland) To emit smoke.
    • 18th c, Robert Burns, The Twa Dogs, 1822, The Poetical Works of Robert Burns, page 28,
      The lunting pipe, and sneeshing mill, / Are handed round wi' right gude-will;
    • My conscience! ye lent a ready hand in the brulzie; but what can ha'e set the Magazines a-lunting? it's a mystery o' mysteries.[…]Especially as it's their game to set everybody a-lunting, and keep out of the conflagration themselves.1832, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 2, page 377
  2. (Scotland) To walk while smoking a pipe.
    • “Lunting?” interrupted Julie, eyebrow raised.
      Grimbledung shrugged, “It's a good and proper word”, he raised an eyebrow back, "it just doesn't get used that much."
      Julie smirked, “Go on then, with your lunting.”
      He let out a sigh. "As I was saying, I was sitting there when a Minotaur came lunting...2014, Robert P. Wills, Tales From A Second Hand Wand Shoppe, Book 1: They Were the Best of Gnomes, They Were the Worst of Gnomes, page 278

Proper noun capitalized: Lunt

Lunt (plural Lunts)

  1. A surname.

lunt meaning in Tamil and Urdu

lunt in Tamil

வட்டத்திரி

lunt in Urdu

بھڑک اٹھنا, بھڑکانا, سلگانا

Forms of lunt

Noun
plurallunts
Verb
third-person singular presentlunts
present participlelunting
past participlelunted
pastlunted
Proper noun
pluralLunts

Origin of lunt

From Dutch lont.

Words that rhyme with lunt

11 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about lunt

What does lunt mean?
Lunt means a slow-burning match or torch.
What is lunt in Tamil?
Lunt in Tamil is வட்டத்திரி. See Lunt meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is lunt?
Lunt can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce lunt?
Lunt is pronounced /lʌnt/.
What is the plural of lunt?
The plural of lunt is lunts.

Words near lunt in the dictionary

  1. luns
  2. Lunsar
  3. Lunsford
  4. Lunsfords
  5. Lunsmann
  6. lunt
  7. Luntai
  8. Luntal
  9. lunted
  10. lunting
  11. lunts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lunt (page history and authors); Lunt (page history and authors); lunt (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lunt (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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