stane
Americannoun
noun
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Belinkin was as gude a mason As e'er pickt a stane; He built up Prime Castle, But payment gat nane.
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
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
She's cast off her bonny brown gown, And laid it on a stane; Her belly was big, her twa sides high, Her colour it was quite gane.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
The youngest stood upon a stane, Binnorie, O Binnorie!
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
"Here is a ring, a ring," he says, "It's all gold but the stane: You are bidden to come to the merry green wood,35 And ask the leave o' nane."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
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
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
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