bant
to lose weight by practicing Bantingism.
Origin of bant
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How to use bant in a sentence
In some of these old settlements there are houses where the door is still opened from without by a "sneck-bant," or "finger-hole."
Lancashire Sketches | Edwin WaughEvery rich bant keeps his kambla field consecrated to buffalo-racing, and his pair of racing buffaloes, costing from Rs.
Castes and Tribes of Southern India | Edgar ThurstonFines inflicted by the bant caste council are, I am informed, spent in the celebration of a temple festival.
Castes and Tribes of Southern India | Edgar ThurstonThe foregoing account shows that the bant marriage is a good deal more than concubinage.
Castes and Tribes of Southern India | Edgar ThurstonA nice verb, to bant, though not approved of by the dictionary, which scornfully terms it “humorous and colloquial”.
Penguin Persons & Peppermints | Walter Prichard Eaton
British Dictionary definitions for bant
/ (bænt) /
string
strength or springiness of material
Origin of bant
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