Sc. Also 6 luntt. [a. Da. lont a match. Cf. LINSTOCK.]
1. A slow match; also, a torch. To set lunt to: to set fire to.
1550. Acts Privy Council (1891), III. 89. One cth weight of fyne corne powder, demi cth of matches or luntes.
1571. R. Bannatyne, Jrnl. Trans. in Scot. (1806), 132. Some men that was going vpon the croftis with lunttis.
1582–8. Hist. James VI. (1804), 126. Ane of thame … hade a loose lunt, quhilk negligently fell out of his hand amang the great quantity of poulder.
1706. in Phillips (ed. Kersey).
1755. Johnson, Lunt, the matchcord with which guns are fired.
1816. Scott, Bl. Dwarf, ix. ‘If ye step a foot nearer it wi’ that lunt, it’s be the dearest step ye ever made in your days.’… ‘We’ll sune see that,’ said Hobbie, advancing fearlessly with the torch.
1828–40. Tytler, Hist. Scot. (1864), III. 237. They … laid a train, which was connected with a ‘lunt,’ or slow match.
1887. P. M’Neill, Blawearie, 57. The ‘lunt’ was used by the miner … for the purpose of kindling his lamp when he arrived at the stairhead.
1894. Crockett, Lilac Sunbonnet, xvi. 141. An’ while they tied them to a bit stick an’ set lunt to them.
2. Smoke, smoke with flame, esp. the smoke from a pipe. Also, hot vapor.
1785. Burns, Halloween, xiii. She fuff’t her pipe wi’ sic a lunt. Ibid., xxviii. Till butter’d so’ns wi’ fragrant lunt Set a’ their gabs a-steerin.
1865. J. Shaw, in R. Wallace, Country Schoolm. (1899), 123. After she had discussed her ‘lunt’ she would crouch with her chin on her palms.
