dial. and techn. [f. STANK sb.] trans. a. To dam or strengthen the banks of a stream. Also to stank back, up (water). † b. To surround with a moat. Obs.
a. 1656. R. Fletcher, Martial’s Epigr., etc. 154. I’le … stanck up the salt Conducts of mine eyes To watch thy shame, and weep mine obsequies.
1829. in Ashbee, Last Rec. Cotswold Community (1904), 6. Jno. Steel stanking the water and mounding in meadow … [0.] 1. 6.
1839. Sir G. C. Lewis, Gloss. Heref., s.v., A man shutting down a floodgate would stank back the water.
1881. Cussans, Hist. Hertfordsh., Cashio, 321. Water-courses are stanked where they take a sharp turn.
b. a. 1670. Spalding, Troub. Chas. I. (Bannatyne Club), II. 315. Sir William Forbes … plantis sum soldiouris thairin, being stankit about and of good defens.
Hence Stanking vbl. sb. = STANK sb. 2.
1883. Gresley, Gloss. Coal-mining, 238. Stanking.
