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Ale vs Lant - What's the difference?

ale | lant |

As nouns the difference between ale and lant

is that ale is an intoxicating liquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation and the addition of a bitter, usually hops while lant is aged urine.

As a verb lant is

to flavor (ale) with aged urine.

ale

English

Noun

  • An intoxicating liquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation and the addition of a bitter, usually hops.
    • Note: The word ale, in England and the United States, usually designates a heavier kind of fermented liquor, and the word beer a lighter kind. The word beer is also in common use as the generic name for all non-distilled malt liquors.
  • A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk.

    • Synonyms

    * (liquor) beer (loosely), yill

    Derived terms

    () * alehouse * alewife * ginger ale * pale ale * real ale

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    lant

    English

    Etymology 1

    Alteration of earlier .

    Noun

    (-)
  • Aged urine.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To flavor (ale) with aged urine.

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

  • (UK, dialect, Northern England) (the card game)
    • (Halliwell)

    Etymology 3

    Compare (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several species of slender marine fishes of the genus Ammedytes''. The common European species (''A. tobianus'') and the American species (''A. Americanus ) live on sandy shores, buried in the sand, and are caught in large quantities for bait.
    • Synonyms
    * launce * sand eel (Webster 1913)

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