"ha'nt" meaning in English

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          "text": "Joe-Bob and Nelly swore up and down that the thing that pushed their pick-up into the ditch wasn't a big brown bear, but a spectral ha'nt, most likely Joe-Bob's deceased ex-wife.",
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    {
      "form": "ha'nted",
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      "form": "ha'nted",
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          "text": "Riley and one of the others were so much afraid of the ghost that “ha’nted” the old house, that they set out straightway for Greenbank, leaving their boats.",
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          "ref": "1943, Brett Halliday [pseudonym; Davis Dresser], Murder Wears a Mummer’s Mask (Midnite Mysteries), New York, N.Y.: Books, Inc., published 1946, page 96",
          "text": "It flickered out as he looked. “Ghost lights,” Cal Strenk whispered, awed. “Nobody up there now with Ol’ Pete dead. Ghost lights. That’s what. Ha’nting our ol’ cabin.”",
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      "ipa": "/hænt/"
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