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n. (context US English) (especially southern American) Variant of haunt;
Usage examples of "ha'nt".
It shows that the reason its boots turned too was because it still had them on after it started to go ha'nting around, and if that ain't proof that them blatherskites didn't get the boots, I'd like to know what you'd CALL proof.
Ee wor a proper gennelman what fed un in ter parlor, like what no urchins ha'nt been afore nor since.
Never a man to believe in ha'nts, I was willing to believe that if a place was to be ha'nted, this was a likely one.
Of a night by the fireside when somebody would start to tellin' stories of ha'nts and such, he would recite poetry to us.
Up in the mountains of Tennessee we know all about wolves and such, like ha'nts and werewolves.
Around the fire is the time to talk of treasure, and ha'nts and witches and such, but come broad day there's work to be done.
Right now 'tis certain thar's ghosts an' ha'nts an' debils a-roostin' on that rock pile, just a-waitin' fer them mortals to jine 'em.
I was twelve years old, and as I watched the Moon rise orange and bloated through the cypress and tupelo-gum, my mind drifted to the stories I'd heard at my nanny's knee, tales of ha'nts and spirits, of the cursed souls called loup-garous, and of the Alligator King, a hundred-foot behemoth that could rise unseen from his watery lair and reduce a pirogue to kindling with a single snap of his great jaws.
I found some all right an' there's aplenty where it came from if'n you aren't skeered of ha'nts and the like.