There is believed to have been no example of riding the stang in Cumberland or Westmorland during the last half century.
The mode of carrying out the ceremony is as follows: A man having beaten his wife, the young men of the village assume the attitude of public censors, and arrangements are made for riding the stang three nights in succession.
In Yorkshire, riding the stang is the name used; in Scotland the same term is applied; in the South of England skimmington-riding is the title generally employed, and on the Continent it is known by other appellations.
The ancient custom of riding the stang still lingers in some remote parts of the country.
But I that have power in earth and heav'n above, Stangthem both with never-failing love.
Several more of these were found at Bardney and other parts of the Witham; and again at “Kirksted Wath” the eel-stang brought up an iron specimen, which from its appearance would seem to have been broken in action.
Beany got stang by a hornet in the organ lof and one side of his face was all swole up.
Luverin the feller whitch had been stang by a hornit on the underlip had told me to bate a hook and set my pole for a big hornpout or an eal.
Luvrin had been stang by a hornit on his underlip and evrybody had a good time looking at him.
Stang and by the members then forming the Section of the Cabinet Council, Due, J.
For two years The Cabinet STANG opposed a furious Storthing, while the King was powerless to form a parliamentary Radical Ministry on reasonable terms.
He implicated the unfortunate Stangin these nefarious actions, and other well-do-do and respectable persons.
The first person to whom Lokke presented me was Emil Stang (born 1834), the son of the then prime minister of Norway, Frederik Stang, and a leading advocate.
Stang laughed as he told me of Ibsen's gigantic anger at this offence; he had immediately put the matter into Stang's hands, and had desired him to get a full indemnity from the Danish publisher.
Mr. Stang told me that the case was still dragging through the courts; I never learned the result.
For Joseph Stangdeath drew aside its mask of horror and revealed itself the fair prize and ultimate reward of mankind, impartially awaiting the winners and losers in life.
Physicians at the hospital declare that Mr. Stang must have calculated his jump carefully, as a falling body would not strike head first unless by design.
To ride the stang was a popular punishment for husbands who behaved cruelly to their wives.
It was at least a fathom lang, And tapered, at the end a stang Like harpoon dart or arrow head, Glittering and gleaming fiery red.
But if I hear tell that she doth rebel, Or him to complain, with fife and drum Then we will come, And ride the stang again.
The nith-stang primarily was the head of the victim offered in sacrifice, lifted up with an invocation to the god to look on the sacrifice, and in return carry evil to the houses of all those who wished ill to the sacrificer.
The last trace of the nith-stang as a vehicle of doing ill was at Basle, where the inhabitants of Great and Little Basle set up figures at their several ends of the bridge over the Rhine to outrage each other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stang" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
