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▪ I. wang1 Obs. exc. dial.|wɒŋ| Forms: 1 wange, wænge, wenge, wonge, 3–5 wong(e, 4–6 wang(e, (4 woong, 5 wangge, waynge, vange, 7 wongge, 9 dial. whang), 7– dial. wang. [OE. wang, str. masc., wange, wk. neut., corresp. to OS. wanga fem., MDu. wange (mod.Du. wang fem.), MLG. wange neut., fem., OHG. wanga neut. (MHG. wange neut., mod.G. wange fem.), ON. vange wk. masc. (Norw. vange; Da. vanger pl. ‘cheeks’ of a press), Goth. *waggō, ? fem. or neut. (whence waggareis pillow = OE. wangere):—OTeut. *waŋgon-, -ōn-. The further etymology is obscure; some regard the word as cogn. w. OE. wang field, wong.] †1. The cheek. Obs.
c975Rushw. Gosp. Matt. v. 39 Ᵹif hwa ðec slae on ðæt swiðran wonge vel ceke þin. c1000ælfric Saints' Lives xxiii. b. 556 Þonne astrehte ic me sylfe on eorðan and þa wangas mid tearum oferᵹeat. c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 20 Smyre mid þy þæt wenge. c1300Cursor M. 18308 Adam fell dun for-wit his fete And spak til him, wit wonges wete. a1310in Wright Lyric P. vi. 28 Nihtes when y wende ant wake, for-thi myn wonges waxeth won. c1320Sir Tristr. 732 Þe king biheld þat old, Hou his wonges were wete. c1425Wyntoun Cron. v. ix. 1968 Quhill wepyt, quhill scho wongys wete. c1440York Myst. x. 275 Thy wordis makis me my wangges to wete. 2. A molar tooth: = wang-tooth.
c1386Chaucer Reeve's T. 110 Swa werkes ay the wanges in his heed. 1901F. E. Taylor Folk Sp. S. Lanc. (E.D.D.), Wang, a tooth; gen. a back tooth. ▪ II. wang2, weng s.w. dial. [Of uncertain origin; possibly a var. of wing n., which in some dialects denotes a part of a ploughshare.] (See quots.)
1813Vancouver Agric. Devon 117 The [plough-]beam..is seven feet long, furnished at the head with an horizontal and vertical graduated wang of rack-work. 1886W. Somerset Word-bk., Wang, or Weng. 1. A strong iron fixed to the front end of the beam [of a plough], having notches by which the end of the foot-chain..is adjusted,..as may be needful, according to the width of furrow desired... 2. Of a cart—the iron loop or staple upon each shaft, to which is hooked on the chain of the vore-horse. ▪ III. wang var. wong dial., field. ▪ IV. wang var. whang. |