In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
PANTED
Verb
panted
simple past tense and past participle of pant
Anagrams
• pedant, pentad
Source: Wiktionary
PANT
Pant, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Panted; p. pr. & vb. n. Panting.] Etym: [Cf. F. panteler to gasp for breath, OF. panteisier to be breathless, F. pantois out of breath; perh. akin to E. phantom, the verb prob. orig. meaning, to have the nightmare.]
1. To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp. Pluto plants for breath from out his cell. Dryden.
2. Hence: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly. As the hart panteth after the water brooks. Ps. xlii. 1. Who pants for glory finds but short repose. Pope.
3. To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; -- said of the heart. Spenser.
4. To sigh; to flutter; to languish. [Poetic] The whispering breeze Pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees. Pope.
Pant, v. t.
1. To breathe forth quickly or in a labored manner; to gasp out. There is a cavern where my spirit Was panted forth in anguish. Shelley.
2. To long for; to be eager after. [R.] Then shall our hearts pant thee. Herbert.
Pant, n.
1. A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp. Drayton.
2. A violent palpitation of the heart. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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