Now rare. Forms: 1 hland, hlǫnd, 7–8 land, 7– lant. [OE. hland, hlǫnd = ON. hland. (The form lant seems to belong to n.w. dialects; cf. Lancashire bant for band.)] Urine, esp. stale urine used for various industrial purposes, chamber-lye.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., I. 362. Wearras & weartan on weʓ to donne nim wulle & wæt mid biccean hlonde. Ibid., II. 40. Wið earena deafe ʓenim hryþeres ʓeallan wiþ gæten hland ʓemenʓed.
1611. Cotgr., Vrine, vrine, lant, stale, chamber-lye.
1634–5. Brereton, Trav. (Chetham Soc.), 106. The linen do so strongly taste and smell of lant and other noisome savours, as that [etc.].
1640. Glapthorne, Wit in Constable, II. Wks. 1874, I. 191. Your nose by its complexion does betray Your frequent drinking country Ale with lant in’t.
1787. Grose, Prov. Gloss., Land, or Lant, urine.
1859. [J. D. Burn], Autobiog. Beggar Boy, 105. Twice a-week I had to collect stale lant (urine), from a number of places where it was preserved for me.
attrib. 1870. trans. Erckmann-Chatrian’s Blockade Phalsburg, 139. A lane … full of dungheaps and lant-holes.
