Also 4 staner. [f. STONE v. + -ER1.] One who stones or pelts with stones (esp. so as to kill).

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a. 1350.  Stephen, 217, in Horstm., Altengl. Leg. (1881), 30. Saul, þat þe staners clothes held.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 477/1. Stonare, or he þat stonythe … lapidator.

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1623.  Bingham, Xenophon, 99. The stoners of the Ambassadors.

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1680.  C. Nesse, Church Hist., 359. With this word, as with a stone, he knockt those stoners, for such they would have been to the woman, on the head.

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1867.  H. P. Liddon, in J. O. Johnston, Life & Lett., v. (1904), 110. Holding the raiment of the stoners of St. Stephen.

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