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Wanty vs Wante - What's the difference?

wanty | wante |

As nouns the difference between wanty and wante

is that wanty is (uk|dialectal) a girth or belly-band for a horse's harness while wante is .

As an adjective wanty

is (uk|dialectal) possessing or indicating lack; deficient.

As a verb wante is

.

wanty

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) waynte, equivalent to .

Alternative forms

* (l), (l) * (l), (l) (Scotland)

Noun

(wanties)
  • (UK, dialectal) A girth or belly-band for a horse's harness.
  • (UK, dialect) A surcingle, or strap of leather, used for binding a load upon the back of an animal.
  • (UK, dialect) A leather tie; a short wagon rope.
  • (UK, dialectal) A stretch of fishing-lines shot in the water.

    • Etymology 2

    From .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (UK, dialectal) Possessing or indicating lack; deficient.
    • (Webster 1913)

    wante

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1733, author=Various, title=Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=But they still followed them by guess, hopeing to find their dwellings; but they soone lost both them & them selves, falling into shuch thickets as were ready to tear their cloaths & armore in peeces, but were most distressed for wante of drinke. }}

    Verb

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1621, author=Azel Ames, title=The Mayflower and Her Log, Complete, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I trow you must excomunicate me, or els you must goe without their companie, or we shall wante no quareling; but let them pass. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1890, author=William Painter, title=The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=We shall soner wante our Fathers and Senatours, then they their plebeian officers. }}

    Anagrams

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