Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Spang"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Spang \Spang\, v. t.
To spangle. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Spang \Spang\, v. i.
To spring; to bound; to leap. [Scot.]
But when they spang o'er reason's fence, We smart for't
at our own expense. --Ramsay.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Spang \Spang\, n.
A bound or spring. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Spang \Spang\, n. [AS. spange a clasp or fastening; akin to D.
spang, G. spange, OHG. spanga, Icel. sp["o]ng a spangle.]
A spangle or shining ornament. [Obs.]
With glittering spangs that did like stars appear.
--Spenser.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
spang
v : leap. jerk, bang (dialectal); "Bullets spanged into the
trees" [syn: {bang}]
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