stane
Americannoun
noun
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He's built a bower, made it secure 30 Wi' carbuncle and stane; Tho' travellers were never sae nigh, Appearance it had nane.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
In that howe stood the minister, upon a muckle stane that has been lang syne removed; and the congregation sat upon the brae around him.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various
Sorrow tak the hands that moved the stane!
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 by Various
Lammikin was as gude a mason As ever hewed a stane; He biggit Lord Weire's castle, But payment gat he nane.
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
"A hungry stane hawk spooming down the quarry after some raven that has been picking the banes o' the Melvilles," replied the other.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 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
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