LANT • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Lant

... with much conviction. But he quoted no facts, nor did he give any data to substantiate his statements. Someone told him it was the original of the "White Hart," as they told him that the house named Dickens House in Lant Street was where Dickens once lived, irrespective of the fact that the actual house was demolished years before. Yet that satisfied him, he took no trouble to make further enquiries and then imagined the rest. In regard to the "George" he let his imagination ...

— The Inns and Taverns of "Pickwick" - With Some Observations on their Other Associations • B.W. Matz