stane
Americannoun
noun
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His line got tangled in a stane, and he got me to fetch it out.
From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Robert Turnbull
Sorrow tak the hands that moved the stane!
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 by Various
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
I’ve been asleep—in a traunce—in a stupor—like a toad in a stane, for a’ these years, an’ have come to life this verra day!”
From Seven Frozen Sailors by George Manville Fenn
O he has broken my bonny castell, That was weel biggit wi' lime and stane.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV 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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