on't

See also: ont, Ont, ONT, önt, ont-, -ont-, Ont., and Appendix:Variations of "ont"

English

on't

(archaic, regional) Contraction of on it.
- 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in The Abbot. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 29:
  “Speak no more on’t,” she said; “and now let us part, our conversation may attract more notice than is convenient for either of us.”
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, chapter 5, in Moonfleet, London, Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934:
  'For', says she, 'he is run off I know not where, but as he makes his bed, must he lie on't; and if he run away for his pleasure, may stay away for mine.

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