Also 3–4 stange, (4 stayng), 9 dial. steng. [a. ON. stanga to prick, goad, to spear (fish), to butt with the horns, f. stang-, stǫng stake: see STANG sb.1]

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  1.  † trans. To pierce (a person) with a weapon. Obs.

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c. 1340.  Richard Rolle of Hampole, Prick of Conscience, 5293. Þe spere … þat staynged [v.r. stanged] Crist until þe hert rote.

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c. 1400.  Maundev. (Roxb.), ii. 7. Þe schaft of þe spere with whilk Criste was stanged to þe hert.

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  b.  dial. To spear (eels).

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1856.  P. Thompson, Hist. Boston, 725. Stang.—An instrument to catch eels with, by ‘stanging.’

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  2.  To sting. lit. and fig.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 22014. Dane … neder in strete, waitand hors to stang in fete.

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c. 1375.  Sc. Leg. Saints, xviii. (Mary of Egypt), 427. Ane edir þat wald hym stang.

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c. 1460.  Towneley Myst., xxiii. 426. If thou will my harte stang.

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1724.  Ramsay, Royal Archers Shooting, i. Serpents that wad stang The hand that gies them food.

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1862.  C. C. Robinson, Dial. Leeds, 421. It’ll steng thah if thah touches it.

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  b.  absol.

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c. 1375.  Cursor M., 24357 (Fairf.). Þai stokid him wiþ a spere wiþ wrange Þat þorou mi hert I felde hit stange.

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c. 1475.  Henryson, Orpheus & Euryd., 324. The serpent stangis that is dedely syn.

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1785.  Burns, Jolly Beggars, lii. But for how lang the flie may stang, Let inclination law that. Ibid. (1786), Epist. to Major Logan, vi. As the clegs o’ feeling stang.

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  3.  intr. To shoot or throb with pain. dial.

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1788.  W. H. Marshall, Yorksh., II. 355.

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1825.  Brockett, N. C. Gloss.

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1856.  P. Thompson, Hist. Boston, 725.

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  Hence Stanged ppl. a.; Stanging vbl. sb. and ppl. a.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 21688. Quen þe stanged men moght se Þe nedder on þe tre þat hang, Þai war all warist of þair stang. Ibid., 24540. In sterin stanging was i stadd.

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c. 1460.  Towneley Myst. xxi. 11. We haue had for the mekill hart stangyng.

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1508.  Dunbar, Tua Mariit Wemen, 266. With a terrebill tail be stangand as edderis.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, VII. xiii. 124. Thair wraith and vennom culd he dant and meys And heill thair stanging.

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1602.  2nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass., Prol. 33. Its a Christmas toy indeede, as good a conceit as stanging hotcockles, or blinde-man buffe.

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1863.  Specim. Yorksh. Dial., I had such a stanging pain from the tooth-ache.

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1881.  J. Murray, in Mod. Sc. Poets, III. 154. The doctors pondered lang and sair To rid me o’ the stangin’ o’t.

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