Definitions for stang

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IPA: /stæŋ/

Stang is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in stang (agnst).

Definitions for stang

noun

1. an act or an instance of stinging.
2. a wound, pain, or smart caused by stinging.
3. any sharp physical or mental wound, hurt, or pain.
4. anything or an element in anything that wounds, pains, or irritates:
5. capacity to wound or pain:
6. a sharp stimulus or incitement:
7. Botany. a glandular hair on certain plants, as nettles, that emits an irritating fluid.
8. Zoology. any of various sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organs of insects and other animals capable of inflicting painful or dangerous wounds.
9. Slang. confidence game. an ostensibly illegal operation, as the buying of stolen goods or the bribing of public officials, used by undercover investigators to collect evidence of wrongdoing.

verb

1. simple past tense of sting.

verb (used with object)

1. to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.
2. to affect painfully or irritatingly as a result of contact, as certain plants do:
3. to cause to smart or to cause a sharp pain:
4. to cause mental or moral anguish:
5. to goad or drive, as by sharp irritation.
6. Slang. to cheat or take advantage of, especially to overcharge; soak.

verb (used without object)

1. to use, have, or wound with a sting, as bees.
2. to cause a sharp, smarting pain, as some plants, an acrid liquid or gas, or a slap or hit.
3. to cause acute mental pain or irritation, as annoying thoughts or one's conscience:
4. to feel acute mental pain or irritation:
5. to feel a smarting pain, as from a blow or the sting of an insect.

Origin of stang

before 900; (v.) Middle English stingen, Old English stingan to pierce; cognate with Old Norse stinga to pierce, Gothic -stangan (in usstangan to pull out); (noun) Middle English sting(e), Ol

Examples for stang

At one time the schoolmaster was likened to a perched radish, and again he was "riding the stang" for his sins.

stang: an old word for a perch, sixteen feet and a half, also for a rood of ground.

To ride the stang was a popular punishment for husbands who behaved cruelly to their wives.

Offenders of this description are mounted a-straddle on a long pole, or stang, supported upon the shoulders of their companions.

stang of the trump, the best member of a family, the most judicious or agreeable person in a company, S. B.

There is believed to have been no example of riding the stang in Cumberland or Westmorland during the last half century.

In the olden days, the offender himself was often compelled to ride the stang.

I use the word "stang" here to please Jimmieboy, by the way.

Mr. stang told me that the case was still dragging through the courts; I never learned the result.

"Riding the stang," or pole, is still common in out-of-the-way Lancashire villages.