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stang

American  

[stang] / stæŋ /

verb

Obsolete.

1. simple past tense of sting.

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stang British  

/ stæŋ /

verb

1. archaic a past tense of sting

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Example Sentences

But I have strong suspicions you are, and if so, as the children say, "I hope that stang!"

From Time Magazine Archive

My curse upon thy venom'd stang, That shoots my tortur'd gums alang; And thro' my lugs gies mony a twang,                Wi' gnawing vengeance; Tearing my nerves wi' bitter pang,                Like racking engines!

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James

A blessing on the cheery gang Wha dearly like a jig or sang, An’ never think o’ right an’ wrang By square an’ rule, But as the clegs o’ feeling stang Are wise or fool.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

"The Lord has taken away the stang of pain out of my life," she said.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

The stang is of Saxon origin, and is practised in Lancashire, Cumberland, and Westmoreland, for the purpose of exposing a kind of gyneocracy, or, the wife wearing the galligaskins.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 353, January 24, 1829 by Various