lunt

¹ American  

[luhnt, loont] / lʌnt, lunt /

noun

1. a match; the flame used to light a fire.

2. smoke or steam, especially smoke from a tobacco pipe.

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verb (used without object)

1. to emit smoke or steam.

2. to smoke a pipe.

verb (used with object)

1. to kindle (a fire).

2. to light (a pipe, torch, etc.).

3. to smoke (a pipe).

Lunt ² American  

[luhnt] / lʌnt /

noun

1. Alfred, 1893–1977, U.S. actor (husband of Lynn Fontanne).

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Etymology

Origin of lunt

1540–50; < Dutch lont match, fuse; akin to Middle Low German lunte match, wick

Example Sentences

He became quite friendly; he extinguished the lunt by stamping on it with his foot, tapped my shoulder in a confidential manner and called me little brother.

From Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale by J?kai, M?r

I give it in the original language, with a literal translation: DE SAD DER, DE TO— De sad der, de to, i saa lunt et hus ved host og i venterdage, Saa braendte huset.

From The Master Builder by Gosse, Edmund

The challenge was of use, the freebooter lowered his lunt.

From Pretty Michal by Jókai, Mór

She fuff't her pipe wi' sic a lunt, In wrath she was sae vap'rin, She notic't na an aizle brunt Her braw, new, worset apron Out thro' that night.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

Meanwhile the foreign captain had taken the lunt in his own hand to fire the largest cannon, such a cannon as none of the Cossacks had ever beheld before.

From Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich