Obs. exc. dial. Also 3–5 stonde, 4–5 stoond(e, 6 stande (6 pl. stannes). [a. or cognate with (M)LG. stande, Flem. stande (16th c. in Kilian; mod. WFlem. in De Bo) = OHG. stanta, standa wk. fem. (MHG., mod.G. dial. stande fem.); f. the root of STAND v.]
1. An open tub; a barrel set on end.
c. 1250. Death, 110, in O. E. Misc., 174. Hwer is þi bred and þin ale, þi tunne and þine stonde.
a. 1390. Wyclif, Jer. lii. 19. Stoondis [1382 stenes, 1388 watir pottis, Vulg. hydrias].
c. 1440. Pallad. on Husb., I. 1051. Or make an hyue of boordis lyk a stonde [L. more cuparum].
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 477/1. Stonde vessel (v.rr. ston vessel, stoonde vessel), futula, cumula [etc.].
c. 1490. 5th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., 445/2. Two stondys full of ale each of them conteyning 13 galons.
1559. in Nichols, Progr. Eliz. (1823), I. 71. Item, for a stande of small ale 2s. 0d.
1582. Inventory R. Best, in Best’s Farm. Bks. (Surtees), 172. One gialfatte, 3 stannes 3 s.
1588. Marprel. Epist. (Arb.), 38. At length sir Jefferie bethought him of a feat whereby he might both visit the alestond and also keepe his othe.
1594. Lyly, Mother Bombie, II. v. My wag-halter … shall learne the oddes betweene a stand and a hogs-head.
1603. Dekker, Wonderfull Yeare, Wks. (Grosart), I. 124. The Tapster … rapping out fiue or sixe plaine Country oathes, that hee would drowne himselfe in a most villanous Stand of Ale.
1673. Shadwell, Epsom-Wells, I. 8. I have the rarest stand of Ale to drink out in the afternoon, with three or four honest Country fellows.
1679. Lett. Gentl. Romish Rel. to his Brother, 28. That he may have leave to meet some few Neighbours to dust a stand of Ale.
1775. Adair, Amer. Ind., 395. All his war store of provisions consisted in three stands of barbicued venison.
a. 1791. Tom Line, xxxiv. in Child, Ballads, I. 344. First dip me in a stand o milk, And then a stand o water.
1854. Miss Baker, Northampt. Gloss., Stand, a large barrel set on end under a spout for the purpose of receiving rain-water.
1899. Dickenson & Prevost, Cumbld. Gloss., Stand, the large washing tub in which the dolly is worked.
b. Comb.: † standfat = prec.
1593. Wills & Inv. N. C. (Surtees), II. 229. In the new house. One leade, ij standfattes, j troughe.
2. A certain weight (of pitch, coal).
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Stand of Burgundy-Pitch, (in Merchandize) a quantity from two and a half to three Hundred Weight.
1729. Swift, Lett. Irish Coal, 4 Aug., Wks. 1824, VII. 222. The common rate of the Kilkenny coal, at the pits, is sixteen pence the stand; the stand is five hundred, one quarter weight.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Stond,… a weight for pitch of 21/2 to 3 cwt.
