English

Pronunciation

• enPR: stăng, IPA^(key): /stæŋ/
• (also) (US) enPR: stāng, IPA^(key): /steɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -æŋ

Noun

stang ‎(plural stangs)

1. (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.

2. (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)

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 tense of sting

Anagrams

• angst, 'ganst, 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

Derived terms

• stangdrukken adj
• stangspring n
• stangtøj n

Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑŋ

Noun

stang m ‎(plural stangen, diminutive stangetje n)

1. bar

See also

• baar f
• blok n
• staaf f

Anagrams

• angst

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

stang

1. rod, 3.1374 metres

Swedish

Verb

stang

1. past tense of stinga.