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Stank   Listen
noun
Stank  n.  
1.
Water retained by an embankment; a pool of water. (Prov. Eng. & Scot.)
2.
A dam or mound to stop water. (Prov. Eng.)
Stank hen (Zool.), the moor hen; called also stankie. (Prov. Eng.)





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"Stank" Quotes from Famous Books



... we bear the heat with an angelic patience and felicity which really are edifying. We tried to make the monks of Vallombrosa let us stay with them for two months, but their new abbot said or implied that Wilson and I stank in his nostrils, being women, and San Gualberto, the establishes of their order, had enjoined on them only the mortification of cleaning out pigsties without fork or shovel. So here a couple of women besides was (as Dickens's ...
— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) • Frederic G. Kenyon
... strewn with foul rushes that must have lain unchanged for months, slippery with grease and littered with bones that had been flung there by the polite guests the place was wont to entertain. And it stank most vilely of rancid oil and burnt meats and other things indefinable in all but their acrid, nauseating, ...
— The Strolling Saint • Raphael Sabatini
... stirrup-leather and steel-boot and nearly severed his leg. The Highlander expired, and Lindsay was with difficulty borne out of the field by his followers—Wyntown. Lindsay is also noted for a retort, made to the famous Hotspur. At a march-meeting, at Haldane-Stank, he happened to observe, that Percy was sheathed in complete armour. "It is for fear of the English horsemen," said Percy, in explanation; for he was already meditating the insurrection, immortalised ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3) • Walter Scott
... high in heaven and blazed in the winding side-streets so that the tarred timberwork sweated and the gutters stank; from the harbor came the sound of the crier, with his drum, crying herrings, and announcing an auction. The people streamed to church in breathless conversation concerning this child of fortune, Alfred, ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... Mademoiselle Delachaux was to Gardane in Diderot's noble and true tale. But while sacrificing herself, she committed the magnanimous blunder of sacrificing dress. She had her gowns dyed, and wore nothing but black. She stank of black, as Malaga said, ...
— The Muse of the Department • Honore de Balzac


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