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  lunt

  noun

  a match; the flame used to light a fire.
• Lunt
  Lunt

  noun

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

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

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Example Sentences

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lunt Lunt

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

From Pretty Michal by Mór Jókai

And Scotia! while thy rantin' lunt Is mirk and moop with gowans fine, I'll stowlins pit my unco brunt, An' cleek my duds for auld lang syne.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells

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 Robert Burns

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 Edmund Gosse

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 Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

As Peter Brook, who directed the 1958 Broadway premiere starring Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt, wrote in “The Empty Space,” “If you just let a play speak, it may not make a sound.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

He took two companions with him, recorded as Ford and Lunt, and ascended from the Capitoline baseball ground in Brooklyn, but the balloon never reached the ocean.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2024

“If we consider the Olympics a cultural institution,” Lunt said, “maybe it’s worth paying some money if the people of Utah decide that’s important to us, collectively.”

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 9, 2024

Professor Dan Lunt, from the University of Bristol, said: 'This study shows that over the course of Earth's history, the extinction risk of marine life has been inextricably linked to climate change.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 7, 2024

Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne were the old couple, and they were very good, but I didn't like them much.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger

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