stang

See also: Stang, stâng, stäng, and stång

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: stăng, IPA^(key): /stæŋ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• 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^[1]:

     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. (obsolete or historical) 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 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

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

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

• stangdrukken (adjective)
• stangspring n
• stangtøj n

References

• “stang” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Alternative forms

• steng

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɑŋ

Noun

stang m (plural stangen, diminutive stangetje n)

1. bar

Related terms

• stengel

Descendants

• → Indonesian: sêtang
• → Polish: stenga

See also

• baar f
• blok n
• staaf f

Anagrams

• angst

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

• flaggstang
• jernstang

See also

• stong (Nynorsk)

References

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

Swedish

Verb

stang

1. past indicative of stinga