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Stang

//stæŋ// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    Ford Mustang US, slang
Noun
  1. 1
    A forked ritual staff.

    "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[…]"

  2. 2
    Short for "Mustang", a brand of automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company. US, abbreviation, alt-of, slang
  3. 3
    A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake. archaic, obsolete

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

  4. 4
    In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch. historical, obsolete

    "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.")"

Verb
  1. 1
    To shoot with pain, to sting. Scotland, intransitive
  2. 2
    simple past of sting dialectal, form-of, past, rare
  3. 3
    To spear; to sting. Scotland, transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English stang, stong, from Old Norse stǫng, from Proto-Germanic *stangiz, *stangō (“bar, rod”), from Proto-Indo-European *stengʰ-, *stegʰ- (“to stick, sting, prick, be stiff”).

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

From the German and Jewish surname, from the noun Stange (“pole”).

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