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Lunt vs Runt - What's the difference?

lunt | runt |

As nouns the difference between lunt and runt

is that lunt is a slow-burning match or torch while runt is the smallest animal of a litter, or,.

lunt

English

Noun

(lunts)
  • A slow-burning match or torch.
  • * 1969 , Robert Nye, Tales I Told My Mother ,
    • Bent down and saw I was right. A lunt' up the bugger’s nose. A ' lunt ? said Doctor Copper. Almost as long as your left forefinger, yes, said his visitor. Still burning.
  • Smoke with flames, especially from a pipe.
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    runt

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The smallest animal of a litter, or,
  • The smallest child in the family, as in "the runt of the family."
  • Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person.
  • (computing) An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes.
  • (typography) A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph.
  • A breed of pigeon related to the carrier pigeon.
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) A hardened stem or stalk of a plant.
    • (Halliwell)
    Neither young poles nor old runts are durable. — Holland.

    Anagrams

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