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stank

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stank  (stngk)
v.
A past tense of stink.
stank1
vb
a past tense of stink
stank2
n
1. (Engineering / Civil Engineering) a small cofferdam, esp one of timber made watertight with clay
2. (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) Scot and northern English dialect a pond or pool
vb
(Engineering / Civil Engineering) (tr) to make (a stream, cofferdam, etc.) watertight, esp with clay
[from Old French estanc, probably from estancher to stanch]
stank3
n Dialect
1. (Engineering / Civil Engineering) a drain, as in a roadway
2. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) a draining board adjacent to a sink unit
[special use of stank2 (in the sense: pool, pond)]
Translations
stank [ˈstæŋk] pt of stink
Stanley knife® [ˈstænlinaɪf] n → cutter m
stank stink


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As it was, miserably and helplessly, not half himself, a puppet dreamer in a half-nightmare, he knew, as a restless sleeper awakening between vexing dreams, that he was being transported head-downward out of the canoe house that stank of death, through the village that was only less noisome, and up a path under lofty, wide-spreading trees that were beginning languidly to stir with the first breathings of the morning wind.
Jerry of the Islands by London, Jack View in context
What it did, I can tell you in two words--it stank.
The Moonstone by Collins, Wilkie View in context
It actually stank with evil, and it was always twilight.
The Red One by London, Jack View in context
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