▪ I. lunt, n. Sc.
(lʌnt)
Also 6 luntt.
[a. Du. lont a match. Cf. linstock.]
1. A slow match; also, a torch. to set lunt to: to set fire to.
| 1550 Acts Privy Council (1891) III. 89 One c{supt}{suph} weight of fyne corne powder, demi c{supt}{suph} of matches or luntes. 1571 R. Bannatyne Jrnl. Trans. in Scot. (1806) 132 Some men that was going vpon the croftis with lunttis. 1582–8 Hist. James VI (1804) 126 Ane of thame..hade a loose lunt, quhilk negligently fell out of his hand amang the great quantity of poulder. 1706 in Phillips (ed. Kersey). 1755 Johnson, Lunt, the matchcord with which guns are fired. 1816 Scott Bl. Dwarf ix, ‘If ye step a foot nearer it wi' that lunt, it's be the dearest step ye ever made in your days’... ‘We'll sune see that’, said Hobbie, advancing fearlessly with the torch. 1828–40 Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) III. 237 They..laid a train, which was connected with a ‘lunt’, or slow match. 1887 M{supc}Neill Blawearie 57 The ‘lunt’ was used by the miner..for the purpose of kindling his lamp when he arrived at the stairhead. 1894 Crockett Lilac Sunbonnet xvi. 141 An' whiles they tied them to a bit stick an' set lunt to them. |
2. Smoke, smoke with flame, esp. the smoke from a pipe. Also, hot vapour.
| 1785 Burns Halloween xiii, She fuff't her pipe wi' sic a lunt. Ibid. xxviii, Till butter'd so'ns wi' fragrant lunt Set a' their gabs a-steerin. 1865 J. Shaw in R. Wallace Country Schoolm. (1899) 123 After she had discussed her ‘lunt’ she would crouch with her chin on her palms. |
▪ II. lunt, a.
[Cf. Da. † lunte lazy (Kalkar).]
† a. Of a horse: Spiritless, tame (obs.). b. dial. (See quot. a 1825.)
| 1639 T. de la Grey Compl. Horsem. 303 He will become lunt, and utterly to have lost his mettle. a 1825 Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Lunt, short; crusty; surly in speech or in manners. |
▪ III. lunt, v.
(lʌnt)
[f. lunt n.]
a. intr. To smoke, emit smoke. b. quasi-trans. To smoke (a pipe). c. intr. Of smoke: To rise in wreaths, to curl. d. trans. To kindle, light up.
| 1830 D. Vedder in Whitelaw Bk. Sc. Song (1875) 185/2 The carle..was luntin' his cutty before the fire. 1836 M. Mackintosh Cottager's Dau. 71 The curling reek was luntin' up the lum. 1861 R. Quin Heather Lintie (1866) 172 Dumfries, to me thy very name Lunts up a soul-endearing flame. 1894 Crockett Raiders (ed. 3) 92 He sat ever by the chimney corner and lunted away on his cutty pipe. |