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bant

[ bant ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used without object)

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bant

/ bænt /

Origin of bant¹

First recorded in 1860–65; back formation from Banting

Origin of bant¹

probably a dialect pronunciation of band ²

In some of these old settlements there are houses where the door is still opened from without by a "sneck-bant," or "finger-hole."

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”.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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