stang

• enPR: stăng, IPA^(key): /stæŋ/

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• Rhymes: -æŋ

From Middle English stange, partly from Old Norse stǫng; partly from Old English stæng, steng, stenge (“pole, rod, bar, stake, stick”); both from Proto-Germanic *stangō, *stangiz (“bar, rod”), from Proto-Indo-European *stengʰ-, *stegʰ- (“to stick, sting, prick, be stiff”).

stang (plural stangs)

1. (Wicca, paganism) A forked ritual staff.
   • 2006 January 7, Lady Sabrina, Exploring Wicca, Updated Edition, →ISBN, page 87:

     The stang represents the horned god and the masculine force of nature. Much like the wand or athame, the stang is used for raising or directing power […]

   • 2009 June 22, Yowie, “Sikh Quaker?”, in soc.religion.quaker‎:

     In more common (and private) Wiccan circles, the stang is replaced by the athame (black handled knife) and the cauldron replaced with the chalice but its^[sic] pretty much /whatever works for you/.

   • 2014 January 8, Ann Moura, Green Witchcraft: Folk Magic, Fairy Lore & Herb Craft, →ISBN, page 7:

     These stangs can be used as natural altars in outdoor rituals or simply as walking staffs.

2. (archaic or obsolete) A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake.
   • 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:

     Gripping the stang, she peered / At ghostly trees. Bus stopped. Bus disappeared.

3. (archaic or obsolete) In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch.
   • 1880, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels into several Remote Nations of the World - Part I, Chapter II (Page 15)

     These fields were intermingled with woods of half a stang,*... (with the corresponding footnote: "An old word for a perch, sixteen feet and a half. These small woods were therefore eight feet and a quarter.")

• stang ball
• ride the stang

From Old Norse stanga (“prick, goad”).

stang (third-person singular simple present stangs, present participle stanging, simple past and past participle stanged)

1. (intransitive, Scotland) To shoot with pain, to sting.
2. (transitive, Scotland) To spear; to sting.

stang

1. (dialect, rare) simple past tense of sting

stang (plural stangs)

1. (slang, US) Short for "Mustang", a brand of automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company.

• 'ganst, Gnats, Tangs, Tsang, angst, gnast, gnat's, gnats, tangs

From Old Norse stǫng.

stang c (singular definite stangen, plural indefinite stænger)

1. bar
2. rod
3. pole
4. crossbar

• stangdrukken (adjective)
• stangspring n
• stangtøj n

• “stang” in Den Danske Ordbog

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stang m (plural stangen, diminutive stangetje n)

1. bar

• → Indonesian: sêtang

• baar f
• blok n
• staaf f

• angst

From Old Norse stǫng.

stang f or m (definite singular stanga or stangen, indefinite plural stenger, definite plural stengene)

1. a bar, pole, rod, lever, staff, stick, shaft
2. rod, 3.1374 metres

• flaggstang
• jernstang

• stong (Nynorsk)

• “stang” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “stang_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

stang

1. past tense of stinga.