[f. STANG sb.1]
† 1. trans. To fasten with a ‘stang,’ to bar.
1598. Florio, Stangare, to barre, to sprang, to stang a dore.
† 2. To cause to ride the stang. Cf. STANG sb.1 1 b.
1674. Ray, N. C. Words, 44. This Word is still used in some Colleges in … Cambridge; to stang Scholars in Christmas, being to cause them to ride on a colt-staff, or pole, for missing of Chappel.
1777. Brand, Pop. Antiq., App. 410.
3. To carry (produce) on stangs.
1829. Glover, Hist. Derby, I. 203. In very steep or small inclosures, hay continues here to be carried to the stack, by a method called stanging…. Corn crops, from similar situations, are also stanged.
