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‖ nant|nænt| [W.] A brook; a valley.
1862G. Borrow Wild Wales II. xxxii. 368, I saw a small house close by a nant or dingle. 1883G. Allen Flowers & their Pedigrees vi. 184 There was once a time when great glacial sheets spread over the combs and glens of Snowdonia, as they spread to-day over the nants of Chamounix. 1923Chamber's Jrnl. 26 May 409/1 A hill-road scrambles through orchards and vineyards and across dashing nants (mountain torrents) to a lofty ledge of pasture-land. |