stong

See also: Stong, stöng, and stǫng

English

Etymology

A form of stang (“staff; unit of land measure”).

Noun

stong (plural stongs)

1. (Lincolnshire, obsolete or historical) An area of land equivalent to a quarter of an acre; a rood; a stang.
   • 1856, Pishey Thompson, The History and Antiquities of Boston: And the Villages of Skirbeck, Fishtoft, Freiston, Butterwick, Benington, Leverton, Leake, and Wrangle : Comprising the Hundred of Skirbeck, in the County of Lincoln : Including Also a History of the East, West, and Wildmore Fens, and Copious Notices of the Holland Or Haut-Huntre Fen, page 132:

     […] with other 3 stong of land called Orchortofts, the which Humphrey Greyfe holds by year, paying therefore . . . . . Also for farm of 2 acres pasture, lying in Wythorne - tofts, the which William Fysher holds by year . . . . . Also for farm of one stong of land lying in Algarkyke, […]

   • 1903, Fenland Notes and Queries: A Quarterly Antiquarian Journal for the Fenland, in the Counties of Huntingdon, Cambridge, Lincoln, Northampton, Norfolk, and Suffolk, page 296:

     Thomas, son of Gilbert, 1 acre 3 stong. In marsh, 1 acre 20 perches. Conan, his brother, 4 acres 3 stong. In marsh, 1 acre and half a stong. […]

   • 1924, Lincoln Record Society, The Publications of the Lincoln Record Society:

     The terriers mention a little close or pingle, containing half a stong, called 'the Chappell yarde,' which is surrounded by the lands of Dunsthorpe grange on every side. This close has now been thrown into the adjoining grass field  […]

   • 1965, H[erbert] E[noch] Hallam, Settlement and Society: A Study of the Early Agrarian History of South Lincolnshire (Cambridge Studies in Economic History), Cambridge, Cambs.: Cambridge University Press, →LCCN, pages 14, 15, and 160:

     None the less the figures in the survey are of interest. They are: Crosneuland, 29 acres 1 stong 2 perches 52½ feet divided into thirty-six pieces; Estneuland, 14 acres 1½ stongs 1½ perches 27 feet divided into seven pieces; Westneuland, 15½ acres 1½ stongs 18 perches 31 feet divided into eighty-one pieces. […] Note that 4 stongs equal 1 acre and 40 square perches 1 stong. […] Sixty perches, forming one piece, are simply in Neuland and the rest is either in nouo neulond or in ueteri neulond—22 acres 35½ perches 26½ feet in the former, in fifteen pieces; 12 acres 1 stong 5 perches 22½ feet in the latter, in twelve pieces. The whole amounts to 34 acres 3 stongs 2 perches 21 1 feet in twenty-eight pieces. […] Terra mensurata was usually measured in acres, stongs (or roods) and perches, but often the measurement was taken to the nearest foot and sometimes to the nearest half foot.

Anagrams

• Tongs, tongs

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse stǫng, from Proto-Germanic *stangō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɔŋk/
• Rhymes: -ɔŋk

Noun

stong f (genitive singular stangar, plural stengur)

1. bar, rod, pole
2. (poetic) long spear, lance
3. (soccer) post

Declension

Declension of stong
f9	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	stong	stongin	stengur	stengurnar
accusative	stong	stongina	stengur	stengurnar
dative	stong	stongini	stongum	stongunum
genitive	stangar	stangarinnar	stanga	stanganna

Derived terms

• flaggstong
• fleygastong

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse stǫng, from Proto-Germanic *stangō. Cognate with Icelandic stöng, Danish stang, Swedish stång.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɔŋː/

Noun

stong f (definite singular stonga, indefinite plural stenger, definite plural stengene)

1. rod, pole

   Han vart slegen med ei stong av jarn.

   He was hit with a rod made of iron.

Inflection

Historical inflection of stong indefinite singular definite singular indefinite plural definite plural Aasen1 Stong f Stongi Stenger Stengerna 1901 stenger (stengar) stengerne (stengane) 1917 stonga, stongi stenger stengene, stengerne 1938 stonga [stongi] stengene 2012 (current) stong f stonga stenger stengene Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier. Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen. 1Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century.

See also

• stang (Bokmål)

References

• “stong” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “stong”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
• “stong” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring