[f. LUNT sb.] a. intr. To smoke, emit smoke. b. quasi-trans. To smoke (a pipe). c. intr. Of smoke: To rise in wreaths, to curl. d. trans. To kindle, light up.
1830. D. Vedder, in Whitelaw, Bk. Sc. Song (1875), 185/2. The carle … was luntin’ his cutty before the fire.
1836. M. Mackintosh, Cottager’s Dau., 71. The curling reek was luntin’ up the lum.
1861. R. Quinn, Heather Lintie (1866), 172. Dumfries, to me thy very name Lunts up a soul-endearing flame.
1894. Crockett, Raiders (ed. 3), 92. He sat ever by the chimney corner and lunted away on his cutty pipe.
