stang

See also: Stang, stâng, stäng, and stång

English

Pronunciation

enPR: stăng, IPA^(key): /stæŋ/
Rhymes: -æŋ

Etymology 1

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”).

Noun

stang (plural stangs)

(archaic or obsolete) A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake.
- 1962, Vladimir Nabakov, Pale Fire
  Gripping the stang, she peered / At ghostly trees. Bus stopped. Bus disappeared.
(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.")

Derived terms

stang ball
ride the stang

Etymology 2

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

Verb

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

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

Etymology 3

Verb

stang

(dialect, rare) simple past tense of sting

Etymology 4

Noun

stang (plural stangs)

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

Anagrams

'ganst, Gnats, Tangs, Tsang, angst, gnast, gnats, tangs

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse stǫng.

Noun

stang c (singular definite stangen, plural indefinite stænger)

Inflection

Declension of stang

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	stang	stangen	stænger	stængerne
genitive	stangs	stangens	stængers	stængernes

Derived terms

stangdrukken adj
stangspring n
stangtøj n

References

“stang” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ɑŋ

Noun

stang m (plural stangen, diminutive stangetje n)

bar

Anagrams

angst

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

stang

rod, 3.1374 metres

Swedish

Verb

stang

past tense of stinga.

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse stǫng, from Proto-Germanic *stangō.

Noun

stang f (definite singular stanga, dative stangen, definite plural stängren)

bar, rod, pole

Derived terms

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