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bant
[ bant ]
verb (used without object)
, Medicine/Medical.
- to lose weight by practicing Bantingism.
bant
/ bænt /
noun
- string
- strength or springiness of material
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bant1
probably a dialect pronunciation of band ²
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Example Sentences
In some of these old settlements there are houses where the door is still opened from without by a "sneck-bant," or "finger-hole."
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Every rich Bant keeps his kambla field consecrated to buffalo-racing, and his pair of racing buffaloes, costing from Rs.
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Fines inflicted by the Bant caste council are, I am informed, spent in the celebration of a temple festival.
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The foregoing account shows that the Bant marriage is a good deal more than concubinage.
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A nice verb, to bant, though not approved of by the dictionary, which scornfully terms it “humorous and colloquial”.
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