stang

Example Sentences

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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

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 Kitton, Fred. G.

Now, in the middle part of the third hour, the air of the Gorge did begin that it was heavy, and to have a seeming of fumes that stang something upon the throat, odd whiles.

From The Night Land by Hodgson, William Hope

It curled and squirmed and gleamed, The stang it glowed, red-hot it seemed; Whate'er it touched it brunt and bristled, The very sod it scorched and frizzled.

From A Golfing Idyll or The Skipper's Round with the Deil On the Links of St. Andrews by Flint, Violet

Make, to, chai; what are you making? stang n's chai?

From Alphabetical Vocabularies of the Clallum and Lummi by Gibbs, George