Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A wooden bar; a pole.
  • noun The bar of a door.
  • noun A rod, pole, or perch used in the measurement of land.
  • noun A sting.
  • noun The weever, a fish. Also stangster.
  • noun A Siamese coin.
  • An obsolete or dialectal preterit of sting.
  • To sting.
  • To throb with pain; sting.
  • To cause a sharp, sudden pain; inflict a sting.
  • noun An obsolete form of stank.
  • To cause to ride on a stang.
  • noun A bar or pole, in a kind of warp-dressing machine, over which the warp passes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • Archaic imp. of sting.
  • noun A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake.
  • noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch.
  • noun a projectile consisting of two half balls united by a bar; a bar shot. See Illust. of Bar shot, under Bar.
  • noun to be carried on a pole on men's shoulders. This method of punishing wife beaters, etc., was once in vogue in some parts of England.
  • intransitive verb Prov. Eng. To shoot with pain.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb dialect, rare Simple past of sting.
  • verb intransitive, Scotland To shoot with pain, to sting.
  • verb transitive, Scotland To spear; to sting.
  • noun archaic or obsolete A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake.
  • noun archaic or obsolete In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch.

Etymologies

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inflected form of sting

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From Old Norse stanga ("prick, goad").

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From Old Norse stǫng (cognate with Old English steng).

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  • A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake. In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch.

    August 5, 2008

  • Nickname for the Mustang. A fine automobile.

    August 5, 2008

  • I agree, I've owned three of 'em. (5.0L)

    September 8, 2009

  • "This word is ftill ufed in fome colleges in the univerfity of Cambridge; to ftang fcholars in Chriftmas-time, being to caufe them to ride on a colt-ftaff, or pole, for miffing of chapel. It is ufed likewife in the Eaft Riding of Yorkfhire for the fourth part of an acre, a rood." --Grose's A Provincial Glossary, 1787.

    May 18, 2011

  • Pray replace your f's with long eſſes!

    May 18, 2011

  • (unicode & # 3 8 3 ;) (minus the spaces)

    May 18, 2011

  • I'm ftl - *far too lazy* to find and replace all those short f's with long ones, yarb. Sorry, but thanks for the code.

    May 18, 2011

  • ſſs!

    May 18, 2011

  • ſufferin' ſuccotaſh!

    May 18, 2011

  • See horse-stang.

    May 20, 2011