The new word is: lant.

Please send me your daffynitions by PM. As ever, no cheating and looking it up!

You've got mine.

I've only received PMs from two Wordcrafters so far. More please!

I've received a couple more PMs, making six daffynitions in all. I'll give it a few more days. Any more contributions will be gratefully accepted.

Last call!

Any more daffynitions?

Last call, with only two participants? This is sad! Where has everyone gone?

Here are the daffynitions for lant:

1. to propel a boat along a river by pushing with a pole against the bank

2. the unusable undercoat on a sheep pelt

3. archaic: bitter or distasteful

4. a game where kids bounce a ball while they jump rope

5. to mingle ale with stale urine to make it strong

6. the pronated portion of a Swiss Guard's halverd

7. offal (North Eastern UK dialect)

8. awkwardly positioned, askew

Guess away! Anyone can guess - you don't have to have submitted a daffynition first.

Three and five seem related. There's a funny scene in the movie, "Red Sorghum" related to this.
I'll guess #8, though my reasoning may be askew.

I'll try a pint of number 5.

3, please.

I'll vote for #2.

Wordmatic

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Any more guesses?

Well, we don't seem to have had many entries or guesses for this word. Here are the results:

1. to propel a boat along a river by pushing with a pole against the bank
Mine - no takers
2. the unusable undercoat on a sheep pelt
Geoff - who fooled wordmatic
3. archaic: bitter or distasteful
Geoff - this time fooling Kalleh
4. a game where kids bounce a ball while they jump rope
Kalleh - fooling nobody
5. to mingle ale with stale urine to make it strong
The real thing - see http://home.comcast.net/~wwftd/jkl.htm#lant
Correctly guessed by Bob
6. the pronated portion of a Swiss Guard's halverd
Proofreader - no takers for this
7. offal (North Eastern UK dialect)
Bob - no-one bit
8. awkwardly positioned, askew
Bob - who caught out Geoff

Well done Bob! Having correctly guessed the meaning of the word and having fooled one person with your daffynition you had the best results.

As long as I don't have to drink the brew!

I had in the back of my mind somewhere that I had read about mixing urine with ale. I had no idea if this was the word for it though.

Brings a world of meaning to "going out on the piss". I wonder if the expression is connected?

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According to wikipedia it was also used for cleaning floors, in the laundry, wool-processing, glazing pastries and freshening the breath.

Ah, the good old days.

There's the common complaint about bad beer, "This beer tastes like piss!". I've always wondered how the complainant recognised the taste but have refrained from asking for personal safety reasons.

That reminds be of a time I was in the Gents at my local. The landlord or his staff had been rather overenthusiastic in their use of some floral-scented air freshener and someone came in and exclaimed, "Cor, it smells like a Turkish brothel in here!". Again, because he was about 6'4" and broad with it, I refrained from asking about his experience with brothels, and how he was able to pick out the distinctive odour of a Turkish one.

It was in the back of my mind that Lant was piss-fortified beer, but chose otherwise.

Good job, Bob! Now if we can just convince the several lurkers to hop in and join the game...

Who knew? Although, according to wikipedia, lant is the stale urine itself, and beer mixed with stale urine is lanted ale. To lant an ale then would be to mix stale urine in with it, but does lant itself actually mean to mingle ale with stale urine to make it strong, or is lant rather to mix stale urine with , with ale simply being the most common thing that was lanted?

Good question, Michael. Perhaps Tsuwm should amend his entry on WWFTD.

All I can say is "Yuk!"

WM