Lexicographical Neighbors of Stanging
Literary usage of Stanging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nightless North: A Walk Across Lapland by Frederick Lancelot Hamilton Morrice (1881)
"We passed a boat with three men in it, all stanging away with their long poles
... and thought how glad I was that I had done with swamps and "stanging" for ..."
2. Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year (1858)
"On New Year's day the only peculiar custom I have seen was what they called "
stanging," called elsewhere " lifting." This consisted in seizing unwary ..."
3. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction by Reuben Percy, John Timbs (1829)
"... previous to their obtaining Magna Charta at Runny Mead, near Egham, in Surrey.
CJT stanging. (For the Mirror.) THIS odd custom is now vice ..."
4. The Early Records of the Town of Providence by Providence (R.I.). Record Commissioners (1899)
"... the sayd stump to range southerly to a white oake Tree marked on two sides,
with the two letters: IS: upon the sayd Tree, the sayd tree stanging on the ..."
5. The Lake Counties by William Gershom Collingwood (1902)
"The calendar was marked by Christmas merry-nights ; New Year stanging (making
churlish wayfarers ride the pole) ; Candlemas business-settlements; ..."
6. Transactions by Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire (1857)
"On New Year's day the only peculiar custom I have seen was what they called "
stanging," called elsewhere " lifting." This consisted in seizing unwary ..."
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