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lavant

noun

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from Middle English *lavand, *lavant, lavande, present participle of Middle English laven (“to stream, pour out a stream, wash”), from Old English lafian (“to pour water on, wash, lave, bathe, ladle out”), equivalent to lave + -and; or from Old French lavant, present participle of laver (“to wash”). See lave.

  1. derived from lafian
  2. derived from laven

Definitions

  1. A shallow or more or less intermittent spring, or the stream of water (bourne) which…

    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[…]
    • 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.

  2. A violent flow or rush of water.

    • How it did rain! It ran down the street in a lavant.

  3. A civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8508).

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A minor river in West Sussex.

    2. A community in Lanark Highlands township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.

    3. A municipality in East Tyrol, Austria.

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