Lavant
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Lavant is a noun meaning (UK dialectal) A violent flow or rush of water.
Meaning
(UK dialectal) A violent flow or rush of water.
More Meanings
- (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.
Example Sentences
How it did rain! It ran down the street in a lavant.
[…] an intermittant stream (locally known as a "lavant," but in many parts called a "bourne") appears in the valley bottom […]
The cold wet weather continued unabated during February and the underground springs ('lavants') began to break out of the chalk hills ominously early.
In this part of Hampshire a bourn is called a lavant, and after long internals when a lavant rises at Hambledon, some of the springs rise from, or quite close to[,] the churchyard itself.
Word Forms
- lavants
Related Words
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