stane

American  

[steyn] / steɪn /

noun

Scot. and North England.

staned, staning

1. stone.

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stane British  

/ steɪn /

noun

1. a Scot word for stone

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Example Sentences

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stane staned

Had I a statue been o’ stane, His daring look had daunted me; And on his bonnet graved was plain, The sacred posy, ‘Libertie.’

From The Real Robert Burns by J. L. Hughes

She set her foot on her door step, A bonny marble stane, And carried him to her chamber, O'er him to make her mane.

From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various

He's taen her by the milk-white hand,165 And led her to yon fountain stane; He's changed her name from Susie Pye, And he's call'd her his bonny love, Lady Jane. 109-112.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various

"Weel, that beats the world!" quoth the smith; "I wad hae thought the mare wad hae luppen ower yird and stane, or fa'en down dead wi' fright."

From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by James Hogg

This grave-like calm and stillness became to him waur than any noise could hae been; and, to mak a lang tale short, there he sat on the stane till the grey o' the mornin.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various

The boy's no' partial-like to ministers—ye'll excuse me for sayin'—ever since he fell oot wi' the minister's loon, and staned him aff the Drumquhat grund.

From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Then he staned the cats that cam' rinnin' to beg for milk an' cheese—cats that never war clodded afore.

From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett