Definition of "stank"

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2002, Tasha C. Miller, Assout: Incoherent Thoughts and Poems of an Unemployed Black Girl, page 11

This is why most top-notch women can't stand stank hoes. Classy women have more contempt for these women than men do.

2003, Tariq Nasheed, Play or be played, page 124

They was saying the jawn freaked out and called the cops cause all her sorority sistahs started ragging on her and calling her a stank ho for fucking half the basketball team.

2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, page 204

I just ignored him because he stanked worst than I did.

2010, Michael Lee, Time to Crime: Doing Time, Listening to Crime, page 39

I did not want to ask for her hand in marriage in a hospital room that stanked of chlorine and god knew what else.

2012, Tess Neis, My Own Winter Sun, page 234

I couldn't figure out exactly how the Preacher'd done it, but something with this tithing business stanked real bad.

2012, Christopher Paul Curtis, Elijah of Buxton

You washed it because it stanked.” It is supposed to stank.

2014, Jasmine Inari Jarden, Grandfather's Favorite Girl

He was killing me with the jokes and he was killing everybody with his smuggled corned beef samages that stanked up the joint.

2010, Brooke, Detroit, Lenacrave and Cleveland, page 295

And he [the hart] fleeth then mightily and far from the hounds, that is to say he hath gone a great way from them, then he will go into the stank, and will soil therein once or twice in all the stank and then he will come out again by the same way that he went in, and then he shall ruse again the same way that he came (the length of) a bow shot or more, and then he shall ruse out of the way, for to stall or squatt to rest him, and that he doeth for he knoweth well that the hounds shall come by the fues [footing] into the stank where he was.

c. 1425, Edward, Second Duke of York [i.e., Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York], “Of the Hart and His Nature”, in W[illia]m A[dolf] Baillie-Grohman, F[lorence] Baillie-Grohman, editors, The Master of Game by Edward, Second Duke of York: The Oldest English Book on Hunting, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1909, page 33

Water-courses are stanked where they take a sharp turn, to prevent the force of the current wearing away the bank at the outside angle.

1881, John Edwin Cussans, History of Hertfordshire - Volume 3, page 321

'Have you ever seen such a mighty river before?' 'No , I answered, 'but I knew him when he was a wee thing, a child like myself, and I have stanked him often at his sylvan source with a few small stones, and the very first vessel he ever floated was a little boat I made of a pea-pod.'

1881, Zacharias Topelius, Whisperings in the wood, page 92

The water had been stanked most carefully , and confined within its banks by soil and turf.

1888, Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches, page 45

The sewer was then stanked off at both sides of the passage by brickwork and its reconstruction commenced.

1912, W. Hemming Jones, “The Brocklebank Dock Improvements on the Mersey Dock Estate”, in Transactions of the Liverpool Engineering Society, volume 33, page 170

Mr. Hownslow was a man who lived at the Chequers Inn, and one night coming home from Charlbury, in the narrow part of Spelsbury Lane he fell down and stanked ( blocked ) the water and was drowned.

1962, Elsie Corbett, A History of Spelsbury, page 263

Rejoining the Stroudwater Canal near Lockham Bridge you can either turn left for a hundred yards or so past the concrete pillbox installed during the Second World War to where the canal is stanked off or omit this short section of canal altogether and turn right along the canal towards Bristol Road.

2013, Michael Handford, The Stroudwater Navigation Through Time

The stop-planks which had for so long stanked off the waters of the summit level at South Ketton Bridge were then lifted.

2015, L.T.C. Rolt, Winterstoke

They never dreamed of using a float; I doubt if there was such a thing in the whole valley; but they “stanked' their rods in the bank, with the line heavily shotted and arranged so that the hook was just clear of the bottom, the line being at right angles to the point of the rod.

1895, G. Christopher Davies, “The Dee”, in The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, volume 1, page 251

Should the depth of water on a vessel's deck be considered too deep for this method, the ship has to be stanked, or raised upon–that is to say, balks of timber have to be bolted or secured to her waterways; thick planks have to be fastened to the balks, so that they come above water, and then they are decked across, and the whole is made watertight with canvas or oakum.

1898, Captain James Bell, “Raising Sunken Vessels”, in Cassier's Magazine: An Engineering Monthly, volume 14, page 331

I see your little desert-busted ankle boots and holy kid blankets, winter uniforms all stanked in must and I can't sleep here and I love your crap and I can't make a bed without you— the fitted sheet is a one-person nightmare.

2018, Derrick C. Brown, Hello. It Doesn't Matter.

The writer was obliged, a few months ago, to open out a whole district which had been "stanked off " ( as the phrase of the district is ) for over a year, and on approaching the old air-way the heat became intolerable and the fire was burning as badly as ever.

1884, North of England Institute of Mining Engineers, Transactions - Volume 33, page 155

From your experience then, taking into account the fact that you have a fiery and dusty mine to deal with, would you prefer to stank off as soon as there is the slightest evidence of any natural heating, either by smell or vapour or anything else, or would you prefer to run the risk of having to cope with filling out a large quantity of debris to get at the fire?

1916, Great Britain. Home Office, First Report of the Departmental Committee on Spontaneous Combustion of Coal in Mines, page 176

If a gob-fire were more or less effectively stanked off, so that they had plenty of time for the work, he could quite see what a very useful adjunct cementation would be in that case.

1917, Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain), Transactions - Volume 53, page 32

The process of methane removal at the pretreatment or exploitation stage, or methane outlets from the stanked areas, are carried out in about half of them.

1996, T.S. Golosinski, Guo Yuguang, Mining Science and Technology, page 19

I am so stiff and so stank, That uneath may I stand any more

1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “September. Aegloga Nona.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […]; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890,

This was executed with sch gallantry and spirit by the troops, that, notwithstanding the natural strength of this pos, the abbatis of fruit trees that were made, the batteries of the town of Bommel which stanked the approach, and the considerable number of men who defended it, it was soon carried, and the enemy driven across the river (every where passable on the ice) with considerable loss of men and of four pieces of cannon.

1796, The Scottish Register, page 252

upon the south of the garden, by ane easy descent, you come to the great orch-yaird containing sex aikers of ground, includeing a parcell thereof that is woody, all upon one levine, stanked and hedged, about whose back entry from the south leads you first to a triangle haugh surrounded with wood, and then to the river of Clyde for salmond fishing for more nor two mylles, which makes the lenth of the wholl barronie from Garingill to the Miregill mouth.

1815, James Somerville Baron Somerville, Walter Scott, Memorie of the Somervilles, page 384

Upon Friday the 25th of April, sir William Forbes of Craigievar, at his own hand, takes in the place of Kemnay, frae the widow lady thereof, plants some soldiers therein, being stanked about, and of good defence;

1830, John Spalding, The History of the Troubles and Memorable Transactions in Scotland From the Year 1624 to 1645, page 490

In the por ( bustle ) I lost my hat ; tell gittin ' cloase to a mait-stannin ' (shambles), to saave myself from bein' stanked ( trampled ) under fut, I got up and set down 'pon the stannin' ; an ' then, aw, I feelt my sawl all a-fire weth love for everybody theere, and sprengin' to my feet, I begun to ex'ort, and then took to pray.

1873, Richard Hampton, Foolish Dick: an Autobiography of Richard Hampton, page 43

And then she took down the cloam from the chimbly and stanked it under her feet, so as no one shouldn't hev it after she war gone.

1898, M, “Recollections of a Parish Worker”, in The Cornish Magazine, volume 1, page 471

I like to know a man be stanked on, for they'm miserable torments most o' their time .

1906, Mrs. Havelock Ellis, My Cornish Neighbours, page 40

I caan't afford to ' ave my straw stanked down an ' spoiled.

1909, Silas Kitto Hocking, In Spite of Fate, page 177

I remarked on this to Tippet and he mumbled something about they saucy girls having gathered all the eating peas and stanked on his lettuces and carrots to get them.

1931, Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick, Storms and Tea-cups, page 93

It is this moment which Parker chooses to tell; in so doing setting a new agenda and standard for Cornu-English dialect literature: ' We should ha' just stanked on over the top of 'en but instead we hesitated and squared up.

2000, Alan M. Kent, The Literature of Cornwall, page 269

I put on my clean gook to-day, And went to fetch some barm,When I stanked 'pon a slaw-cripple, Down there by Hodge's farm.

1895, Joseph Thomas, Randigal Rhymes and a Glossary of Cornish Words, page 24

But she stanked upon a wuilkin one day in the chall, and after that she was always liable to quames.

1901, Pearson's Magazine, volume 11, page 362

He catched sight o' the barra handles sticked up over a lime bucket, and stanked fore to grab 'em.

1975, Jack R. Clemo, Confession of a Rebel, page 72

Certainly, there would be those happy to support his elevation to parliament: Then up jumped Reuben Gill, And he stanked on the floor To send John Prisk to Parliament He'd beg from door to door.

2007, Philip Payton, Making Moonta: The Invention of Australia's Little Cornwall, page 122

The wemmen and some of the men sot down, too, but all the young cheldern runned away down out o' sight, so I stanked out as fast as I cud to see where they was going to, and when I got there, they was all down by a will.

2010, George Pritchard, Angletwitch and Poppydock, page 9

In cattle auctions, cows are frequently seen with “stanked udders,” when a cow is driven to market several miles along hard roads with a loaded udder, its milk is not improved for human consumption.

1913, Royal Sanitary Institute (Great Britain), Journal of the Royal Sanitary Institute - Volume 33, page 86

An old cow, giving rather little milk and perhaps not freshly calved, may be 'stanked' in order to deceive a prospective purchaser, and in this case an accusation of 'cruelty' would not be so ill-founded.

1950, Frederick Daniel Smith, Barbara Wilcox, The Country Companion, page 91

The cows was stanked and the calves was empty.

1950, Frederick Daniel Smith, Barbara Wilcox, Sold for Two Farthings, page 122

also the advantage of preventing any of the quarters of the udder from becoming stanked, from not being used by the calf, which leads in time to the quarter being lost.

2013, James MacDonald, History of Hereford Cattle

So instead of pleading for Beguildy I said—“Look's cows coming, they'll be stanked if they inna milked.”

2022, Mary Webb, Precious Bane