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plural stangs
(Wicca, paganism) A forked ritual staff. quotations examples
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, 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
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, page 7
(archaic or obsolete) A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake. quotations
Gripping the stang, she peered / At ghostly trees. Bus stopped. Bus disappeared.
1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
(obsolete or historical) In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch. quotations
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)
third-person singular simple present stangs, present participle stanging, simple past and past participle stanged
(intransitive, Scotland) To shoot with pain, to sting. examples
(transitive, Scotland) To spear; to sting. examples
(dialect, rare) simple past of sting
(slang, US) Short for "Mustang", a brand of automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company.