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Definition of stång in Swedish English dictionary
- rod
- A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod
When I hooked a snake and not a fish, I got so scared I dropped my rod in the water.
- A hot rod, an automobile or other passenger motor vehicle modified to run faster and often with exterior cosmetic alterations, especially one based originally on a pre-1940s model or (currently) denoting any older vehicle thus modified
- An implement resembling and/or supplanting a rod (particularly a cane) that is used for corporal punishment, and metonymically called the rod, regardless of its actual shape and composition
- An implement held vertically and viewed through an optical surveying instrument such as a transit, used to measure distance in land surveying and construction layout; an engineer's rod, surveyor's rod, leveling rod, ranging rod. The modern engineer's or surveyor's rod commonly is eight or ten feet long and often designed to extend higher. In former times a surveyor's rod often was a single wooden pole or composed of multiple sectioned and socketed pieces, and besides serving as a sighting target was used to measure distance on the ground horizontally, hence for convenience was of one rod or pole in length, that is, 5½ yards
- A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping
- A straight, round stick, shaft or bar
- A photosensitive receptor in the retina that helps you to see in low light
- An otherwise archaic unit of English measure used in specifying the length of portages A rod equals 16½ feet, with 320 rods to the mile
- a cylindrical length of glass, most often containing a simple molded design of more than one color; the basic component of a millefiori cane
- A support for a fishing line; a fish pole
- any rod-shaped bacterium a long thin implement made of metal or wood visual receptor cell sensitive to dim light
- {i} stick, shaft; stick or bundle of twigs used for whipping; punishment; pistol (Slang)
- Rod-shaped cells in the eye that are sensitive to light
- An instrument of punishment or correction; figuratively, chastisement
- a long thin implement made of metal or wood
- A member used in tension, as for sustaining a suspended weight, or in tension and compression, as for transmitting reciprocating motion, etc
- A monochrome segment of glass cut from a trail
- equals 16 5 feet Used to measure portages
- visual receptor cell sensitive to dim light
- A pistol; a gun
stång
Etymology
[ 'sta[ng] ] (transitive verb.) 14th century. From Old Norse stǫng (cognate with Old English steng).Resimler
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