stangn.1
/staŋ/ dialect.† 2. A measure of land. Obsolete.
1.
a. A pole or stake, a wooden bar or beam. Also in various specific uses (see quots.).
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the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun]
pooleOE
seathc950
lakea1000
flosha1300
stanga1300
weira1300
water poolc1325
carrc1330
stamp1338
stank1338
ponda1387
flashc1440
stagnec1470
peel?a1500
sole15..
danka1522
linn1577
sound1581
flake1598
still1681
slew1708
splash1760
watering hole1776
vlei1793
jheel1805
slougha1817
sipe1825
society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > [noun] > in form of bar, pole, rod, etc.
stingc725
stakec893
sowelc900
tree971
rungOE
shaftc1000
staffc1000
stockc1000
poleOE
spritOE
luga1250
lever1297
stanga1300
perchc1300
raftc1330
sheltbeam1336
stower1371
palea1382
spar1388
spire1392
perk1396
ragged staff1397
peela1400
slot1399
plantc1400
heck-stower1401
sparkin1408
cammockc1425
sallow stakec1440
spoke1467
perk treec1480
yard1480
bode1483
spit1485
bolm1513
gada1535
ruttock1542
stob1550
blade1558
wattle1570
bamboo1598
loggat1600
barling1611
sparret1632
picket1687
tringle1706
sprund1736
lug-pole1773
polting lug1789
baton1801
stuckin1809
rack-pin1821
picket-pin1844
I-iron1874
pricker1875
stag1881
podger1888
window pole1888
verge1897
sallow pole1898
lat1899
swizzle-stick1962
a1300 Cursor Mundi 24029 Þai draf him forth wit staf and stong.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 21144 A wicked iuu..Smate him wid a walker stang [Fairf. a saa. stange].
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1614 & syþen on a stif stange stoutly hem henges.
1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 102 To by stanges for my Lord xvj. d.
1599 R. Fitch in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. i. 258 A kind of Coches..caried vpon a stang betweene 3. or 4. men.
1613 G. Markham Eng. Husbandman: 1st Pt. ii. ix. 81 In those large baskets..carry them [apples] vpon cole-staues, or stangs, betwixt two men.
1709 in D. Beveridge's Culross & Tulliallan (1885) II. 52 Four pounds Scotts to be payed to Alexr. Birnay, wright, for erecting the stang for the scollers in August last.
1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. 96 Stangs, the shafts of a cart.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. x*. 293 He has braw broad shouthers, and I just took the measure o' them wi' the stang.
1824 W. Carr Horæ Momenta Cravenæ Stang, a pole applied as a lever to press on a cart wheel, to prevent too great a velocity in rapid descents.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Stang, a strong piece of wood on which the carcases of beasts are suspended by the sinews of the hind legs.
1900 C. Murray Hamewith 73 This is the ferry, an' I'm the lord An' king o' the boat an' stang.
b. to ride the stang: to be mounted astride of a pole borne on the shoulders of two men, and carried through the streets for the derision of the spectators.In some places in Scotland and the north of England, one who has in certain ways incurred the indignation of his or her fellow-villagers is compelled to ‘ride the stang’ (either personally, in effigy, or by proxy), accompanied by a jeering crowd and sometimes ‘rough music’. There is also a New Year's day custom by which every one met by the mob has either to ‘ride the stang’ or pay a forfeit.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > ridicule or mockery by specific means > ridicule or mock by specific means [verb (intransitive)] > be ridiculed by procession
to ride (the) skimmington1697
to ride the stang1718
ran-tan1866
1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green iii. 29 An mounted wi a Bang, Betweesh twa's Shouders..and rade the Stang On her that Day.
1740 in W. Cramond Ann. Banff (1891) I. 152 Sundry riotous persons fin'd for carrying Ann Miln from her own house and causing her to ride the stang.
1782 Two Anc. Sc. Poems 154 When they cannot lay hold of the culprit himself, they put some young fellow on the stang or pole, who proclaims that it is not on his own account that he is thus treated, but on that of another person, whom he names.
1865 Athenæum 2 Sept. 313/3 An attempt was recently made, in Barnsley..to revive the old custom of ‘riding the stang’. That is, hoisting an offending man on to a staff, or a woman into a basket, and carrying them till the victims ransom themselves by paying a fine, spent in ‘drink’.
1893 Westm. Gaz. 17 Oct. 5/2 On Thursday night the villagers expressed their indignation by the ceremony known as ‘riding the stang’. This consists of carrying an effigy of the person in question round the village.
1896 P. H. Ditchfield Old Eng. Customs 181 All who were found at work on the day of the feast had to ride the stang or pay a forfeit.
a. = rood n. 7.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > an acre > specific
stang1326
acre by lug1602
lug-acre1635
Welsh acre1675
plantation acre1705
Cheshire acre1808
geld-acre1880
the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > an acre > quarter acre or rood
roodlOE
rod1449
yardc1450
particate1489
farthingdeal1543
yardland1543
stang1570
farthing-land1602
ferling1695
1249 Charter Roll, 33 Henry III (P.R.O.: C 53/41) m. 2 Tres Stangas Turbarie.]
1326 Black Bk. St. David's (1902) 18 Philippus Curteys tenet j acram terre et stang et reddit per annum ij d.
1570 in 11th Rep. Deputy Keeper Rec. Ireland 233 A stang called No-man's land, and 1 acre called Bodyngs acre.
1652 in Gentleman's Mag. (1861) Nov. 507 32 acres and three stonge of beanes and pease.
a1691 H. Piers Chorogr. Descr. W.-Meath in C. Vallancey Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis (1770) I. i. 116 They divide usually one field into acres, half-acres, stangs, that is roods.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. ii. 26 These Fields were intermingled with Woods of half a Stang.
1777 Tunstall Inclos. Act 10 Five acres and three stengs of land in the said East Field.
b. In Wales: an acre. Obsolete.
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1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) 133 8 poles in bredth and xx in length or 4 in bredth and 40 in length maketh a stange.
3. (See quot. 1734.)
ΚΠ
1734 in D. D. Black Hist. Brechin (1839) vii. 140 [The price of the] stang or standing stone for the top of the cross.
Compounds
stang-ball n. a variety of bar-shot.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shot collectively > shot > of large guns
fricasseec1575
murdering shot1583
chain-shota1586
crossbar1589
cross-bar shot1591
case shot1599
langrel1627
trundle-shot1627
partridge1635
chain-bullet1636
pelican1639
case1642
spike-shota1661
double-head1678
double-headed shot1678
partridge-shot1683
grape1687
burrel-shot1706
double1707
angel-shot1730
grapeshot1747
star shot1753
bar-shot1756
langrage1769
canister1801
stang-ball1802
chain1804
canister-shot1809
tier-shot1828
pot-leg1852
six-pounder1855
shunt shot1864
sand-shot1867
mitraille1868
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. at Ball Stang Balls.
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stangn.2
/staŋ/ Obsolete exc. Scottish and northern.
1.
a. A sting.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > instruments of defence or offence > sting
prickc1350
stang1382
stingle1398
prickle?c1425
forker1616
dart1665
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Exod. xxiii. 28 Stynggynge flies, that ben sprungun of deed bodies, hauynge the stonges enuenymd.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 20960 Þe nedder..wit hir stang.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 18115 To ded i said, ‘quar es þi stang?’
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 69 The crewall serpent with the mortall stang.
1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lvi. 34 Should it not sting him like stang of an adder?
1567 Gude & Godlie Ball. 108 Thow sall stampe on the edderis stang.
1851 Gloss. Provinc. Words Cumberland
b. The punctured wound caused by a sting.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > wound > stings or bites
stingc900
stinging1398
biting1527
flea-bite1570
flea-biting1598
bite1736
bug bite1739
snip1767
stangc1800
myiasis1839
snake-bite1839
tooth-wound1899
c1800 Ye hae lien a' wrang in Burns' Poems But in herrying o' a bee byke, I'm rad ye've got a stang.
c. A sharp pain such as is caused by a sting.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > smarting or stinging
stingc900
smartingOE
smarta1225
stanginga1300
stinging1398
mordicationa1413
stang1513
urtication1655
smartness1682
verberation1688
mordicancy1693
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xi. ix. 18 The greif and ire dyd fast habound, Rasit wyth breithfull stangis full onsound.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. XXXiiiiv Remembre here also, the sharpe stanges and panges, that our lorde suffred for our synnes.
1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo l. 1140 in Wks. (1931) I It war to lang to mak narratioun Off sychis sore, with mony stang and stound.
a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 791 My curse on your envenom'd stang, That shoots my tortur'd gums alang.
1822 J. Galt Provost xxxvii. 272 Such a stang as I got on entering the house, when I heard his mother wailing that he was dead.
1891 R. Ford Thistledown xvi. 299 My conscience yet gies me sair stangs when I think aboot her.
2. A name for certain fishes:
a. The pipe-fish, Syngnathus acus.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Gasterosteiformes (sticklebacks) > [noun] > family Syngnathidae (pipe-fish) > syngnathus acus (needle-fish)
needlefish1601
stang1803
tangle-fish1838
1803 Sibbald's Fife & Kinross (new ed.) ii. iii. 127 (note) Syngnathus acus, Shorter Pipe-fish; our fishers call it the Stang or Sting.
b. The lesser weever, Trachinus vipera.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Trachinoidei > member of family Trachinidae (weever) > lesser
sting-fish1836
viper-weever1863
stang1880
stangster1880
stony cobbler1880
shoemaker1904
1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland I. 82 Little- or lesser-weever:..Stangster or Stang, Moray Firth.
3. An eel-spear. Also in combination stong-gad.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > spear > [noun] > for eels
algerea1425
augera1425
elgerc1440
eel-spear1555
proking stick1598
pilgera1825
stang1847
sun spear1865
pick1875
prick1880–4
eel-pick1883
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Stang, an eel-spear. North.
1866 J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincs.
1888 G. M. Fenn Dick o' the Fens xii. 189 Mester Hickathrift has got the stong gad to mend. One of the tines is off, and it wants a noo ash pole.
4. Scottish. The awn or beard of grain.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > cereal plants or corn > awn of corn
aileOE
jag1519
spire1530
stang1808
1808 in J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang.
5. The tongue of a ‘trump’ or jews harp; also figurative (see quot. 1808).
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being the best > [noun] > best person
bellman1617
optimate1635
prior1644
stang1808
top-sawyer1826
No. 11843
beyond-man1896
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > other musical instruments > [noun] > Jews' harp
Jew's harp1481
Jew's trump1481
trumpc1550
juice harp1685
jaw harp1752
stang1808
guimbard1830
jawbone1844
Lochaber trump1863
mouth organ1877
mouth-harp1968
1808 in J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Stang of the trump, a proverbial phrase, used to denote one who is preferred to others viewed collectively; as the best member of a family.
1909 C. Murray Hamewith (ed. 2) 21 Trumps wi' double stang.
Compounds
stang-fish n. cf. sense 2 and sting-fish n. at sting n.2 Compounds 2.
ΚΠ
1838 Johnston in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 No. vi. 170 Lesser Weaver, Yarr. Stang-fish, Prov.
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stangv.1
/staŋ/ 1.
a. †transitive. To pierce (a person) with a weapon. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > wound with sharp weapon
woundc760
stickOE
snese?c1225
stokea1300
steekc1300
bearc1330
stangc1340
chop1362
broach1377
foinc1380
strikec1390
borea1400
dag?a1400
gorea1400
gridea1400
staira1400
through-girdc1405
thrustc1410
runc1425
to run throughc1425
traversec1425
spitc1430
through-seeka1500
stitch1527
falchiona1529
stab1530
to stab (a person) in1530
stob?1530
rutc1540
rove?c1550
push1551
foxa1566
stoga1572
poniard1593
dirk1599
bestab1600
poach1602
stiletto1613
stocka1640
inrun1653
stoccado1677
dagger1694
whip1699
bayonetc1700
tomahawk1711
stug1722
chiv1725
kittle1786
sabre1790
halberd1825
jab1825
skewer1837
sword1863
poke1866
spear1869
whinger1892
pig-stick1902
shiv1926
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > cut or penetrate (of weapon) [verb (transitive)] > strike with pointed weapon
prickOE
pritchOE
snese?c1225
threstc1275
stokea1300
bearc1330
stangc1340
broach1377
foinc1380
borea1400
dag?a1400
gorea1400
gridea1400
slot?a1400
staira1400
through-girdc1405
thrustc1410
runc1425
to run throughc1425
traversec1425
spitc1430
through-seeka1500
to run in1509
stab1530
to stab (a person) in1530
accloy1543
push1551
stoga1572
poacha1616
stocka1640
stoccado1677
stug1722
kittle1820
skewer1837
pitchfork1854
poke1866
chib1973
c1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 5293 Þe spere..þat staynged [v.r. stanged] Crist until þe hert rote.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) ii. 7 Þe schaft of þe spere with whilk Criste was stanged to þe hert.
b. dialect. To spear (eels).
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing for type of fish > fish for type of fish in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > fish for eels in specific manner
sniggle1844
stang1856
1856 P. Thompson Hist. & Antiq. Boston, Lincoln 725 Stang, an instrument to catch eels with, by ‘stanging’.
2.
a. To sting. literal and figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > sting or bite
stingc888
pricka1200
to-sting?a1300
to-bite1375
bitea1382
stanga1400
tanga1400
strikec1480
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 22014 Dane..neder in strete, Waitand hors to stang in fete.
c1480 (a1400) St. Mary of Egypt 427 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 308 Ane edir þat wald hym stang.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxiii. 301 If thou will my harte stang, That I myght with hym dee And byde.
1724 A. Ramsay Royal Archers Shooting i Serpents that wad stang The hand that gies them food.
1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 421 It'll steng thah if thah touches it.
b. absol.
ΚΠ
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 24357 Þai stokid him wiþ a spere wiþ wrange þat þorou mi hert I felde hit stange.
a1505 R. Henryson Orpheus & Eurydice 441 in Poems (1981) 147 The serpent stangis: that is dedely syn.
?a1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 206 But for how lang the flie may stang, Let Inclination law that.
a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 301 As the Clegs o' Feeling stang.
3. intransitive. To shoot or throb with pain. dialect.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > suffer or cause type of pain [verb (intransitive)] > shoot or stab
shootc1000
lance1758
stang1788
1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 355 To Stang, to shoot with pain.
1825 in J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words
1856 P. Thompson Hist. & Antiq. Boston, Lincoln 725.
Derivatives
stanged adj.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective] > wounded > stung or bitten
stunga1325
stangeda1400
worried1559
stinged1565
bitten1623
gad-stricken1658
snake-bit1807
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 21688 Quen þe stanged men moght se þe nedder on þe tre þat hang, þai war all warist of þair stang.
?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 48 With a terrebill tail be stangand as edderis.
ˈstanging adj.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [adjective] > smarting or stinging
smartingOE
biting1340
stingingc1400
mordicant?a1425
pungitive?a1425
raw1590
pungent1598
stanging1602
stingyc1615
scorpiaca1670
verberous1688
shrewd1842
snapping1845
stounding1848
mordant1876
smartful1906
1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus Prol. 33 Its a Christmas toy indeede, as good a conceit as stanging hotcockles, or blinde-man buffe.
1863 Specim. Yorksh. Dial. I had such a stanging pain from the tooth-ache.
ˈstanging n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > smarting or stinging
stingc900
smartingOE
smarta1225
stanginga1300
stinging1398
mordicationa1413
stang1513
urtication1655
smartness1682
verberation1688
mordicancy1693
a1300 Cursor Mundi 24540 In sterin stanging was i stadd.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxi. 251 We haue had for the Mekill hart-stangyng.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. xiii. 124 Thair wraith and vennom culd he dant and meys And heill thair stanging.
1881 J. Murray in D. H. Edwards Mod. Sc. Poets 3rd Ser. 154 The doctors pondered lang and sair To rid me o' the stangin' o't.
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stangv.2
/staŋ/ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > close (a door, window, etc.) > bolt, bar, or lock
sparc1175
pena1200
louka1225
bara1300
shutc1320
lockc1325
clicketc1390
keyc1390
pinc1390
sneckc1440
belocka1450
spare?c1450
latch1530
to lock up1549
slot1563
bolt1574
to lock to?1575
double-lock1594
stang1598
obserate1623
padlock1722
button1741
snib1808
chain1839
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Stangare, to barre, to sprang, to stang a dore.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > ridicule or mockery by specific means > ridicule or mock by specific means [verb (transitive)] > ridicule by procession
stang1674
1674 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 44 This Word is still used in some Colleges in..Cambridge; to stang Scholars in Christmas, being to cause them to ride on a colt-staff, or pole, for missing of Chappel.
1777 J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. App. 410.
3. To carry (produce) on stangs.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > transport or convey by carrying [verb (transitive)] > convey by carrying (of person) > convey on poles
pole1779
stang1829
1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 203 In very steep or small inclosures, hay continues here to be carried to the stack, by a method called stanging... Corn crops from similar situations are also stanged.
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