stane

American  

[stayn] / 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

Ay stane he tok op thar it lay, 30 And castit forth that I moth see; Ay merk-soot of large way Bifore me strides he castit three.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

You that made the heaven and the earth and all that in them is, can You no set fire to some wet whins, or change this stane into a mill-dam?”

From The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

"Ye'll cast aff your bonny brown gown, And lay it on a stane; And I'll tell you, my jelly Janet, If ever ye loved a man."

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various

A wall’s no better than the weakest stane in it, lad, and when you’ve built her you guard her day and night, summer and winter, frost, fire and flood, if you want her to last.

From In the Days of the Guild by Louise Lamprey

I was allers teetotally down on it, an I thought I should persuade him out of it, an tharby save the great disgrace an stane it would be on our country.

From Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia by Seba Smith

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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