stannersn.
/ˈstanəz/, U.S. /ˈstænərz/, Scottish English /ˈstanərz/ Scottish.
With plural agreement. ‘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’ (Jamieson).
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > stony material > [noun] > gravel or shingle > shingle
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1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 185 The bruke vas full of bremys, The stanneris clere as stern in frosty nycht.
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid xii. Prol. 60 The new cullour alychtnyng all the landis, Forgane thir stannyris schane the beryall strandis.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 31 Than vndir ane hingand heuch i herd mony hurlis of stannirs & stanis that tumlit doune vitht the land rusche.
c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 236 Dvgar..careis over his men to the Stanneris, quhilk is in midst of the water of Spey.
1803 J. Jamieson Water Kelpie in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border (ed. 2) III. 362 Yestreen the water was in spate, The stanners aw war cur'd.
1805 State, Leslie of Powis 94 (Jam.) At low water the net comes ashore on the stanners, and at high water on the grass.
1867 G. W. Donald Poems 8 Sae lang's the tide shall ebb or jaw Upo' the stanners.
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