/stæŋk/
OriginRespelling of stink, representing the thank-think merger. Compare thang.
- form-of, pastsimple past of stink
- To stink; to smell bad.
“I just ignored him because he stanked worst than I did.”
“I did not want to ask for her hand in marriage in a hospital room that stanked of chlorine and god knew what else.”
“I couldn't figure out exactly how the Preacher'd done it, but something with this tithing business stanked real bad.”
- To cause to smell bad.
“He was killing me with the jokes and he was killing everybody with his smuggled corned beef samages that stanked up the joint.”
- To dam up; to block the flow of water or other liquid.
“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.”
“'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 ston”
“The water had been stanked most carefully , and confined within its banks by soil and turf.”
- broadlyTo pack in tightly.
“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 j”
“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 wate”
“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 ”
- broadlyTo seal off an area of the mine in which a fire has started.
“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 b”
“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 heati”
“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.”
- To surround or guard.
“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 wh”
“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”
“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 g”
- CornwallTo trample.
“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 ' the”
“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.”
“I like to know a man be stanked on, for they'm miserable torments most o' their time .”
- CornwallTo stumble or lurch.
“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.”
“But she stanked upon a wuilkin one day in the chall, and after that she was always liable to quames.”
“He catched sight o' the barra handles sticked up over a lime bucket, and stanked fore to grab 'em.”
- To cause (the udders) to become blocked and inflamed from lack of milking.
“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.”
“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-foun”
“The cows was stanked and the calves was empty.”
- slang, uncountableA certain quality, especially to jazz music, which is often desirable and can be achieved by, among other things, crunchy harmonies, blue notes and groovy rhythm
- UK, dialectalWater retained by an embankment; a pool of water.
“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 ”
- UK, dialectalA dam or mound to stop water.
- obsoleteWeak; worn out.
“I am so stiff and so stank, That uneath may I stand any more”
- A hamlet east of Barrow-in-Furness in Barrow parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Barrow-in-Furness district (OS grid ref SD2370).
Formsstanks(present, singular, third-person) · stanking(participle, present) · stanked(participle, past) · stanked(past) · stanks(plural) · more stank(comparative) · most stank(superlative)