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stanners, n. pl. Sc.|ˈstænəz|
Also 6 stannirs, 8 staners.
[App. a derivative of OE. stán stone n.; cf. ONorthumb. stǽner (inflected stǽnere, stǽnero), rendering petrosa stony places, Matt. xiii. 5, 20 and Mark iv. 5, 16.]
‘The small stones and gravel on the margin of a river or lake, or forming a sea-beach; applied also to those within the channel of a river, which are occasionally dry’ (Jam.).
1508Dunbar Gold. Targe 36 The bruke vas full of bremys, The stanneris clere as stern in frosty nycht. 1513Douglas æneis xii. Prol. 60 The new cullour alychtnyng all the landis, Forgane thir stannyris schane the beryall strandis. 1549Compl. Scot. vi. (1873) 39 Than vndir ane hingand heuch, i herd mony hurlis of stannirs & stanes that tumlit doune vitht the land rusche. a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I (Spalding Club) I. 174 Dugar..carryes over his men to the Staners whilk is in the midst of the watter of Spey. 1802Jamieson Water-Kelpie xx, Yestreen the water was in spate, The stanners aw war cur'd. 1805State, Leslie of Powis, etc. 94 (Jam.) At low water the net comes ashore on the stanners, and at high water on the grass. 1867G. W. Donald Poems (1879) 3/1 Sae lang's the tide shall ebb or jaw Upo' the stanners. |