stang

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See also: Stang, stâng, stäng, and stång

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: stăng, IPA(key): /stæŋ/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -æŋ

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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 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.
  3. (obsolete or historical) In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle English stangen, from Old Norse stanga (“prick, goad”).

Verb

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.

Etymology 3

Verb

stang

  1. (dialect, rare) simple past of sting

Etymology 4

Noun

stang (plural stangs)

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

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse stǫng.

Noun

stang c (singular definite stangen, plural indefinite stænger)

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

Inflection

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

Derived terms

References

Dutch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Dutch stanghe, from Old Dutch *stanga, from Proto-West Germanic *stangu, from Proto-Germanic *stangō.

Pronunciation

Noun

stang m (plural stangen, diminutive stangetje n)

  1. bar

Related terms

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: sêtang
  • → Polish: stenga

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Anagrams

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse stǫng.

Noun

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

Derived terms

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References

Swedish

Verb

stang

  1. past indicative of stinga
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