stang

plural stangs

1. WiccaA forked ritual staff.

   These stangs can be used as natural altars in outdoor rituals or simply as walking staffs.

   2014 January 8, Ann Moura, Green Witchcraft: Folk Magic, Fairy Lore & Herb Craft, →ISBN, page 7

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   The stang represents the horned god and the masculine force of nature. Much like the wand or athame, the stang is used for raising or directing power[…]

   2006 January 7, Lady Sabrina, Exploring Wicca, Updated Edition, →ISBN, page 87

   In more common (and private) Wiccan circles, the stang is replaced by the athame (black handled knife) and the cauldron replaced with the chalice but its^([sic]) pretty much /whatever works for you/.

   2009 June 22, Yowie, “Sikh Quaker?”, in soc.religion.quaker

2. archaicobsoleteA long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake.

   Gripping the stang, she peered / At ghostly trees. Bus stopped. Bus disappeared.

   1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

3. historicalobsoleteIn land measure, a pole, rod, or perch.

   These fields were intermingled with woods of half a stang,*... (with the corresponding footnote: "An old word for a perch, sixteen feet and a half. These small woods were therefore eight feet and a quarter.")

   1880, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels into several Remote Nations of the World - Part I, Chapter II (page 15)

present singular third person stangs · participle present stanging · participle past stanged · past stanged

1. ScotlandintransitiveTo shoot with pain, to sting.
2. ScotlandtransitiveTo spear; to sting.

1. dialectalpastraresimple past of sting

plural stangs

1. USabbreviationclippingslangClipping of Mustang, a brand of automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company.

plural Stangs · alternative Stong

1. A surname.
2. USslangautomotiveFord Mustang