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 Turnbull, Robert
Gude-sake! gi’e up that, and lairne to wrastle and throw the caber and put the stane.
From The Sapphire Cross by Fenn, George Manville
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
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
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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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