Lexicographical Neighbors of Stanes
Literary usage of Stanes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: To which is by John Jamieson (1880)
"... a heap of stanes ; " a hatter of berries," a large cluster or great quantity
crowded together, a confused heap, b. The face is said to be " a' in a ..."
2. A Glossary of the Old Northumbrian Gospels: (Lindisfarne Gospels Or Durham Book) by Albert Stanburrough Cook (1894)
"J. 20, 1; stan (5 times); gs. stanes L. 22; 41; ds. stane (8 times) ; stau J.
19,13; stan Mt. 27,60. ... L. 19, 40; stanes L. I 10,3; dp. stan um Mk. 5, 5. ..."
3. An Autobiography: My Schools and Schoolmasters ; Or, The Story of My Education by Hugh Miller (1859)
"... was " getting siller in the stanes," I was so unlucky as never to be able to
answer their question in the affirmative. ..."
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