Spang vs Stang - What's the difference?
spang | stang |
(obsolete) A shiny ornament or object; a spangle
* Spenser
(of a flying object such as a bullet) To strike or ricochet with a loud report
* 1895 , (Stephen Crane), (The Red Badge of Courage)
* 1918 , (Zane Grey), The U.P. Trail
(dated) Suddenly; slap, smack.
* 1936 , Djuna Barnes, Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 22:
(intransitive, dialect, UK, Scotland) To leap; spring.
* Ramsay
(transitive, dialect, UK, Scotland) To cause to spring; set forcibly in motion; throw with violence.
(archaic, or, obsolete) A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake.
* 1962 ,
(archaic, or, obsolete) In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch.
* 1880 ,
(dialect, rare) (sting)
As a noun spang
is a narrow bridge for one walking person (not wide enough for two to meet), a log bridge.As a verb stang is
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- With glittering spangs that did like stars appear.
Etymology 2
OnomatopoeiaVerb
(en verb)- Occasional bullets buzzed in the air and spanged into tree trunks.
- How clear, sweet, spanging the hammer blows!
Adverb
(-)- And I didn't stop until I found myself spang in the middle of the Musée de Cluny, clutching the rack.
Etymology 3
Probably from (spring) (verb) or (spank) (verb)Verb
(en verb)- But when they spang o'er reason's fence, / We smart for't at our own expense.
Etymology 4
See (span)References
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (cognate with Old English steng).Noun
(en noun)- Gripping the stang , she peered / At ghostly trees. Bus stopped. Bus disappeared.
- 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.")