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stank

[ stangk ]

verb

  1. a simple past tense of stink.


stank

1

/ stæŋk /

noun

  1. a small cofferdam, esp one of timber made watertight with clay
  2. dialect.
    a pond or pool


verb

  1. tr to make (a stream, cofferdam, etc) watertight, esp with clay

stank

2

/ stæŋk /

noun

  1. a drain, as in a roadway
  2. a draining board adjacent to a sink unit

stank

3

/ stæŋk /

verb

  1. a past tense of stink

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Word History and Origins

Origin of stank1

C13: from Old French estanc , probably from estancher to stanch

Origin of stank2

special use of stank ² (in the sense: pool, pond)

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Example Sentences

“The smoke was building up and up, to the point that the whole cabin stank of smoke and I could not see anything but a burnished orange color,” Rutherford said.

It wasn’t a particularly busy day, but the place stank of urine, blood, and feces, Holmes says.

The air hung thick like dirty pudding and stank of burnt rubber as I made my way out of the roadside pullout I was camped in.

They had simple wit and no fashion sense, and they often stank of cheap beer and cheaper cologne.

In 1429 he was one of the commissioners for the truce with Scotland which was concluded at Hawden Stank.

He smelt the Prince's breath, and swore that it stank of a surfeit of undigested Martellian verses.

It is no wonder that the Ecclesiastical Commission, which these men represented, soon stank in the nostrils of the English clergy.

I sent it to you by letter-post and received for it instead of thanks, stench (statt Dank Stank).

The name Laflin stank in the nostrils of an outraged people.

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