stank

verb

1. (form-of, past)simple past of stink
2. To stink; to smell bad.

   “I just ignored him because he stanked worst than I did.”

   “I did not want to ask for her hand in marriage in a hospital room that stanked of chlorine and god knew what else.”

   “I couldn't figure out exactly how the Preacher'd done it, but something with this tithing business stanked real bad.”

   “You washed it because it stanked.” It is supposed to stank.”

3. To cause to smell bad.

   “He was killing me with the jokes and he was killing everybody with his smuggled corned beef samages that stanked up the joint.”

4. To dam up; to block the flow of water or other liquid.

   “Water-courses are stanked where they take a sharp turn, to prevent the force of the current wearing away the bank at the outside angle.”

   “'Have you ever seen such a mighty river before?' 'No , I answered, 'but I knew him when he was a wee thing, a child like myself, and I have stanked him often at his sylvan source with a few small stones, and the very first vessel he ever floated was a little boat I made of a pea-pod.'”

   “The water had been stanked most carefully , and confined within its banks by soil and turf.”

   “The sewer was then stanked off at both sides of the passage by brickwork and its reconstruction commenced.”

   “Mr. Hownslow was a man who lived at the Chequers Inn, and one night coming home from Charlbury, in the narrow part of Spelsbury Lane he fell down and stanked ( blocked ) the water and was drowned.”

5. (broadly)To pack in tightly.

   “They never dreamed of using a float; I doubt if there was such a thing in the whole valley; but they “stanked' their rods in the bank, with the line heavily shotted and arranged so that the hook was just clear of the bottom, the line being at right angles to the point of the rod.”

   “Should the depth of water on a vessel's deck be considered too deep for this method, the ship has to be stanked, or raised upon–that is to say, balks of timber have to be bolted or secured to her waterways; thick planks have to be fastened to the balks, so that they come above water, and then they are decked across, and the whole is made watertight with canvas or oakum.”

   “I see your little desert-busted ankle boots and holy kid blankets, winter uniforms all stanked in must and I can't sleep here and I love your crap and I can't make a bed without you— the fitted sheet is a one-person nightmare.”

6. (broadly)To seal off an area of the mine in which a fire has started.

   “The writer was obliged, a few months ago, to open out a whole district which had been "stanked off " ( as the phrase of the district is ) for over a year, and on approaching the old air-way the heat became intolerable and the fire was burning as badly as ever.”

   “From your experience then, taking into account the fact that you have a fiery and dusty mine to deal with, would you prefer to stank off as soon as there is the slightest evidence of any natural heating, either by smell or vapour or anything else, or would you prefer to run the risk of having to cope with filling out a large quantity of debris to get at the fire?”

   “If a gob-fire were more or less effectively stanked off, so that they had plenty of time for the work, he could quite see what a very useful adjunct cementation would be in that case.”

   “The process of methane removal at the pretreatment or exploitation stage, or methane outlets from the stanked areas, are carried out in about half of them.”

7. To surround or guard.

   “This was executed with sch gallantry and spirit by the troops, that, notwithstanding the natural strength of this pos, the abbatis of fruit trees that were made, the batteries of the town of Bommel which stanked the approach, and the considerable number of men who defended it, it was soon carried, and the enemy driven across the river (every where passable on the ice) with considerable loss of men and of four pieces of cannon.”

   “upon the south of the garden, by ane easy descent, you come to the great orch-yaird containing sex aikers of ground, includeing a parcell thereof that is woody, all upon one levine, stanked and hedged, about whose back entry from the south leads you first to a triangle haugh surrounded with wood, and then to the river of Clyde for salmond fishing for more nor two mylles, which makes the lenth of the wholl barronie from Garingill to the Miregill mouth.”

   “Upon Friday the 25th of April, sir William Forbes of Craigievar, at his own hand, takes in the place of Kemnay, frae the widow lady thereof, plants some soldiers therein, being stanked about, and of good defence;”

8. (Cornwall)To trample.

   “In the por ( bustle ) I lost my hat ; tell gittin ' cloase to a mait-stannin ' (shambles), to saave myself from bein' stanked ( trampled ) under fut, I got up and set down 'pon the stannin' ; an ' then, aw, I feelt my sawl all a-fire weth love for everybody theere, and sprengin' to my feet, I begun to ex'ort, and then took to pray.”

   “And then she took down the cloam from the chimbly and stanked it under her feet, so as no one shouldn't hev it after she war gone.”

   “I like to know a man be stanked on, for they'm miserable torments most o' their time .”

   “I caan't afford to ' ave my straw stanked down an ' spoiled.”

   “I remarked on this to Tippet and he mumbled something about they saucy girls having gathered all the eating peas and stanked on his lettuces and carrots to get them.”

9. (Cornwall)To stumble or lurch.

   “I put on my clean gook to-day, And went to fetch some barm,When I stanked 'pon a slaw-cripple, Down there by Hodge's farm.”

   “But she stanked upon a wuilkin one day in the chall, and after that she was always liable to quames.”

   “He catched sight o' the barra handles sticked up over a lime bucket, and stanked fore to grab 'em.”

   “Certainly, there would be those happy to support his elevation to parliament: Then up jumped Reuben Gill, And he stanked on the floor To send John Prisk to Parliament He'd beg from door to door.”

   “The wemmen and some of the men sot down, too, but all the young cheldern runned away down out o' sight, so I stanked out as fast as I cud to see where they was going to, and when I got there, they was all down by a will.”

10. To cause (the udders) to become blocked and inflamed from lack of milking.

    “In cattle auctions, cows are frequently seen with “stanked udders,” when a cow is driven to market several miles along hard roads with a loaded udder, its milk is not improved for human consumption.”

    “An old cow, giving rather little milk and perhaps not freshly calved, may be 'stanked' in order to deceive a prospective purchaser, and in this case an accusation of 'cruelty' would not be so ill-founded.”

    “The cows was stanked and the calves was empty.”

    “also the advantage of preventing any of the quarters of the udder from becoming stanked, from not being used by the calf, which leads in time to the quarter being lost.”

    “So instead of pleading for Beguildy I said—“Look's cows coming, they'll be stanked if they inna milked.””

adj

1. (derogatory, not-comparable, slang)Foul-smelling, stinking, unclean.

   “Fishy, pussy funky elevator Pissy, broke ass project elevator Old baby piss, stank ass horse, cat piss smelling funky hot ass elevator I'm not climbing no 17 flights[…]”

   “This is why most top-notch women can't stand stank hoes. Classy women have more contempt for these women than men do.”

   “They was saying the jawn freaked out and called the cops cause all her sorority sistahs started ragging on her and calling her a stank ho for fucking half the basketball team.”

2. (obsolete)Weak; worn out.

   “I am so stiff and so stank, That uneath may I stand any more”

noun

1. (derogatory, slang)A stink; a foul smell.
2. (slang, uncountable)A certain quality, especially to jazz music, which is often desirable and can be achieved by, among other things, crunchy harmonies, blue notes and groovy rhythm
3. (UK, dialectal)Water retained by an embankment; a pool of water.
4. (UK, dialectal)A dam or mound to stop water.

name

1. A hamlet east of Barrow-in-Furness in Barrow parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Barrow-in-Furness district (OS grid ref SD2370).