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A civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8508).
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A minor river in West Sussex.
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A community in Lanark Highlands township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.
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A municipality in East Tyrol, Austria.
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A shallow or more or less intermittent spring, or the stream of water (bourne) which feeds and springs forth from such a spring.
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Usage: UK, dialectal
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A violent flow or rush of water.
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History
Compare lavant (“ephemeral spring”).
Compare Slovene Labotnica.
Uncertain. Possibly from Middle English *lavand, *lavant, lavande, present participle of Middle English laven (“to stream, pour out a stream, wash”), from Old English lafian (“to pour water on, wash, lave, bathe, ladle out”), equivalent to lave + -and; or from Old French lavant, present participle of laver (“to wash”). See lave.
