Meaning of lavant | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A shallow or more or less intermittent spring, or the stream of water (bourne) which feeds and springs forth from such a spring.
   UK, dialectal
2. A civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8508).
3. A municipality in East Tyrol, Austria.
4. A violent flow or rush of water.
   UK, dialectal
5. A minor river in West Sussex.
6. A community in Lanark Highlands township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.

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Examples

“Lavants, are land⟳ springs, which break⟳ out much, on the downs of Sussex, Hants, and Wilts. The country people say⟳, that when the Lavants rise⟳, corn will be dear; meaning, that when the earth is so glutted with water as to send⟳[…]”

“In this part of Hampshire a bourn is called a lavant, and after long internals when a lavant rises at Hambledon, some of the springs rise⟳ from, or quite close⟳ to[,] the churchyard itself.”

“About five miles south of Petersfield, in a valley among the chalk hills, is the village of Charlton. No permanent stream flows through this vallet, but eastward of the village a remarkable "lavant" occurs. This lavant is a flow⟳ of water from springs in the chalk of an uncertain and intermittent nature, which occur⟳ in the winter or early spring⟳, depending on the time and degree of the winter rainfall and the consequent saturation of the chalk. The lavant springs occur⟳ at varying elevations, depending on the nature of the seasons; the higher the lavant, the greater is the flow⟳ of water, […]”

“[…] an intermittant stream (locally known as a "lavant," but in many parts called a "bourne") appears in the valley bottom […]”

“The cold wet⟳ weather continued unabated during February and the underground springs ('lavants') began to break⟳ out of the chalk hills ominously early.”

“How it did rain⟳! It ran down the street in a lavant.”

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