Stang

Pronunciation

• enPR: stăng, IPA: /stæŋ/
• (also) US enPR: stāng, IPA: /steɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -æŋ

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

Full definition of stang

Noun

1. (archaic or obsolete) A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake.
• 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Gripping the stang, she peered
  At ghostly trees. Bus stopped. Bus disappeared.
2. (archaic or obsolete) In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch.
• 1880, Jonathan Swift, ''These fields were intermingled with woods of half a stang,*... (with the corresponding footnote: "An old word for a perch, sixteen feet and a half. These small woods were therefore eight feet and a quarter.")

Derived terms

• stang ball
• ride the stang

Pronunciation

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

Verb

1. (intransitive, Scotland) To shoot with pain, to sting.
2. (transitive, Scotland) To spear; to sting.

Pronunciation

Inflected form of sting

Verb

1. (dialect, rare)

   stang

   (simple past of sting)

Anagrams

• angst, 'ganst, gnats, tangs