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🧑‍💻 A math expert 📊 Using numbers 🛶 A boat pole 🛶 To push a boat
to quant

to quant

9.9
To move a boat by pushing the bottom of a shallow river with a long pole
  • verb
  • /kwɒnt/
  • Archaic
translation icon : empujar con pértiga
  • To navigate the shallow river, they had to quant the boat using a long pole.

Examples

  • The group decided to quant their canoe to avoid getting stuck in the mud.

  • He learned how to quant effectively while studying for his rowing team.

  • YOU KNOW, FOR ADDING CATALYZERS TO THE STEEL TO QUANTIFY TENSILE STRENGTH.

    Mammoth (2006)

Synonyms

to punt
vsto quant
  • UK
1 7.9

To move a flat bottom boat by pushing a long pole against the riverbed

uses a specifically named pole rather than a generic pole

How Hard

to ram
1 4.1
shove
31 2.7
to quant
  • Archaic
9.9
push
138 1.0
tap
66 1.0

Surface Forms

quant infinitive
quanted past
quanted past participle
quanting present participle
quants third person singular

Etymology

Quant (verb) comes from the boating tool: to quant is to push a boat with a long pole called a quant, so the verb simply means 'move a boat by pushing on the riverbed'. So when you quant, you are moving the boat with that pole.