Stanners

sb. pl. Sc. Also 6 stannirs, 8 staners. [App. a derivative of OE. stán STONE sb.; cf. ONorthumb. stǽner (inflected stǽnere, stǽnero), rendering petrosa stony places, Matt. xiii. 5, 20 and Mark iv. 5, 16.] ‘The small stones and gravel on the margin of a river or lake, or forming a sea-beach; applied also to those within the channel of a river, which are occasionally dry’ (Jam.).

1508.  Dunbar, Gold. Targe, 36. The bruke vas full of bremys, The stanneris clere as stern in frosty nycht.

1513.  Douglas, Æneis, XII. Prol. 60. The new cullour alychtnyng all the landis, Forgane thir stannyris schane the beryall strandis.

1549.  Compl. Scot., vi. (1873), 39. Than vndir ane hingand heuch, i herd mony hurlis of stannirs & stanes that tumlit doune vitht the land rusche.

a. 1670.  Spalding, Troub. Chas. I. (Spalding Club), I. 174. Dugar … carryes over his men to the Staners whilk is in the midst of the watter of Spey.

1802.  Jamieson, Water-Kelpie, xx. Yestreen the water was in spate, The stanners aw war cur’d.

1805.  State, Leslie of Powis, etc., 94 (Jam.). At low water the net comes ashore on the stanners, and at high water on the grass.

1867.  G. W. Donald, Poems, 8.