bant

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verb (used without object)Medicine/Medical.
  1. to lose weight by practicing Bantingism.

Origin of bant

1
First recorded in 1860–65; back formation from Banting

Words Nearby 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 Waugh
  • Every rich bant keeps his kambla field consecrated to buffalo-racing, and his pair of racing buffaloes, costing from Rs.

  • Fines inflicted by the bant caste council are, I am informed, spent in the celebration of a temple festival.

  • The foregoing account shows that the bant marriage is a good deal more than concubinage.

  • A 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

bant

/ (bænt) /


nounLancashire dialect
  1. string

  2. strength or springiness of material

Origin of bant

1
probably a dialect pronunciation of band ²

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