stound

American  

[stound, stoond] / staʊnd, stund /

noun

1. Archaic. a short time; short while.

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verb (used with or without object)

1. Chiefly Scot. to pain; hurt.

stound British  

/ staʊnd /

noun

1. a short while; instant

2. a pang or pain

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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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stound

Just afterwards I had a terrible stound of calf-love, my first flame being the minister's lassie, Jess, a buxom and forward queen, two or three years older than myself.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur

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 Sidgwick, Frank

The King smote angrily at Copland then, Angrily in that stound; And then Copland was a bold yeoman, And bore the King to the ground.

From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Sidgwick, Frank

Forceless, perforce, I sank down to this pain, As greedy famine doth constrain the hawk Piecemeal to rend and tear the yielding prey: So far'd it with me in that heavy stound.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various

My heart gave a stound, and I said to myself, "This is surely thy death-day, William Gordon!"

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)