stang
Americanverb
verb
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But I have strong suspicions you are, and if so, as the children say, "I hope that stang!"
From Time Magazine Archive
What, stang, stang-wut; what is that? stang ti-á? what are you doing? stang nis-chai?
From Alphabetical Vocabularies of the Clallum and Lummi by George Gibbs
"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 S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Make, to, chai; what are you making? stang n's chai?
From Alphabetical Vocabularies of the Clallum and Lummi by George Gibbs
He tells us all about the ducking-stool, the brank, the pillory, the stocks, the drunkard's cloak, the whipping-post, riding the stang, and other forms of punishment.
From 'Phiz' (Hablot Knight Browne), a Memoir. by Fred. G. Kitton
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