stang

How to use stang in a sentence

• stang-riding continued up to twenty-five years ago in spite of the opposition of the police.

  The Evolution Of An English Town | Gordon Home

• I use the word "stang" here to please Jimmieboy, by the way.

  Bikey the Skicycle and Other Tales of Jimmieboy | John Kendrick Bangs

• Offenders of this description are mounted a-straddle on a long pole, or stang, supported upon the shoulders of their companions.

  Tales of Northumbria | Howard Pease

• stang: an old word for a perch, sixteen feet and a half, also for a rood of ground.

  Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift

• There is believed to have been no example of riding the stang in Cumberland or Westmorland during the last half century.

  Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland | Daniel Scott