Meaning of Stank | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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).
2. A stink; a foul smell.
   derogatory, slang
3. A 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
   slang, uncountable
4. Water retained by an embankment; a pool of water.
   UK, dialectal
5. A dam or mound to stop water.
   UK, dialectal

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Examples

“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.”

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