stound
Americannoun
verb (used with or without object)
noun
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a short while; instant
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a pang or pain
Etymology
Origin of stound
before 1000; (noun) Middle English sto ( u ) nd, Old English stund space of time; cognate with German Stunde, Old Norse stund hour; (v.) Middle English stunden to stay, remain for a stound, derivative of the noun; akin to stand
Example Sentences
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By firth and forest forth they wound, They graithit them full gay: God wot what they would do that stound, For it was their feast-day, They said, Of Peebles to the play!
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
"What boot wilt thou have?" the tanner replied, "Now tell me in this stound."
From A Bundle of Ballads by Henry Morley
Then kneeled our King down, in that stound, And all his men on every side: Every man made a cross and kissed the ground, And on their feet fast gan abide.
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
Then they bent theyr good yew bowes, And loked theyr stringes were round; The markett place of mery Carlile They beset in that stound.
From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Frank Sidgwick
No wonder that they cried unto the Lord, and felt a stound of despair shake their courage.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren
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