stane
Americannoun
noun
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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
Ay stane he tok op thar it lay, 30 And castit forth that I moth see; Ay merk-soot of large way Bifore me strides he castit three.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
I peg your honour's pardon," said the seer, as he came up to Graham; "te katherans are to pe at te red stane in te howe o' te hills, on te saxth.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various
He's taen her by the milk-white hand,165 And led her to yon fountain stane; He's changed her name from Susie Pye, And he's call'd her his bonny love, Lady Jane. 109-112.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
"Here is a ring, a ring," he says, "It's all gold but the stane; You may tell her to come to the merry green wood,15 And ask the leave o' nane."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) 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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