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stang

[ stang ]

verb

, Obsolete.
  1. simple past tense of sting.


stang

/ stæŋ /

verb

  1. archaic.
    a past tense of sting
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Stang-riding continued up to twenty-five years ago in spite of the opposition of the police.

I use the word "stang" here to please Jimmieboy, by the way.

Offenders of this description are mounted a-straddle on a long pole, or stang, supported upon the shoulders of their companions.

Stang: an old word for a perch, sixteen feet and a half, also for a rood of ground.

There is believed to have been no example of riding the stang in Cumberland or Westmorland during the last half century.

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