Lunted

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Set alight or kindled, referring to a fire, pipe, or match that has been lit in dialect usage
2. Ignited or started burning, as a fire or tobacco pipe that someone has set going
3. Having been kindled into flame, a term used in Scottish and northern English speech

Etymology: "Lunted" is the past tense and past participle of "lunt", a verb meaning to set alight or kindle into flame, and it survives mainly in Scottish and northern English speech. The verb descends from a noun borrowed from Dutch "lont", which denoted a slow-burning match or wick, the kind used to carry fire from one point to another. So the core idea is one of a smouldering cord passing its glow along. The sense of "lunt" as a verb therefore grows naturally out of the older noun: to lunt something was to put a lighted match or wick to it. A fire that has been lunted is one that has caught, the flame having been carried into the fuel by that same slow-burning lead.