Definition of "decant" [de•cant]

• To pour off (wine, for example) without disturbing the sediment. (verb-transitive)
• To pour (a liquid) from one container into another. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "So even when I read an old series that is done, I leave some time between the books to "decant" so to speak."
• "Every time that they cried "to arms" I used to send fifty-four knights, who were called "decant" because they each headed ten men whenever we rode out under arms."
• "The council's plans to potentially use the existing Tynecastle High premises as a "decant" facility for pupils at James Gillespie's during the rebuilding of the existing school were revealed by education leader Marilyne MacLaren."