2. Verb. (present participle of spange) (the act of pan handling, or begging) ¹
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Definition of Spanging
1. spang [v] - See also: spang
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spanging
Literary usage of Spanging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"Like a glory from afar, Like a re-appearing star, Comes spanging back into the
cool of the evening, with Cyprus, NORTH'S unique male tortoise-shell cat in ..."
2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"spanging. Rails laid across brooks to present cattle going from one pasture to
another. Devon. SPAN-GUTTER. A narrow brick drain in a coal mine. Salop. ..."
3. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1858)
"... 22.; 4 spanging calves, 11. 6s. 8d.; a stott and a why, 21.; 6 kine, 101; 2
kine, 31.; 3 kine, 42.; a cow and a why, 21. 13s. id. 1578. ..."
4. Desert Gold by Zane Grey (1913)
"There was no smoke, but three high, spanging reports rang out. A gap opened in
the dark line of advancing horsemen; then a riderless steed sheered off to ..."
5. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1826)
"... as he lodged in the rules, at one Mr. Underwood's,to carry him to a spanging-house,
houses where they make a property of all prisoners. It is the duty, ..."
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