Lunt

Quick meaning: Lunt is a noun meaning A slow-burning match or torch.

Meaning

A slow-burning match or torch.

More Meanings

1. Smoke with flames, especially from a pipe.
2. (Scotland) To emit smoke.
3. (Scotland) To walk while smoking a pipe.

Example Sentences

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;

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.

The gunpowder was stamped into the tube, then a lead ball was put into the muzzle, a wad was stamped over it, and the charge was set fire to by a lunt through the lower hole.

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.

Word Forms

• lunts
• lunting
• lunted

Related Words

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