Lant

A container filled with lant, in this case urine aged about four months.

Lant is aged urine. The term comes from Old English hland, which referred to urine.[1] Collected urine was put aside to ferment until used for its chemical content in many pre-industrial processes, such as cleaning and production.[2]

  1. ^ Johnson, Samuel (1827). A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals ... Longman, rees, orme. p. 15.
  2. ^ Fownes, George (1853). Elementary Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical. Blanchard and Lea. p. 513.