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- verb Present participle of
spang . - verb Present participle of
spange .
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Examples
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As she dove for the door, her question was answered: gunshots erupted from the drilling platform, spanging off the bulkhead.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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As she dove for the door, her question was answered: gunshots erupted from the drilling platform, spanging off the bulkhead.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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As she dove for the door, her question was answered: gunshots erupted from the drilling platform, spanging off the bulkhead.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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As she dove for the door, her question was answered: gunshots erupted from the drilling platform, spanging off the bulkhead.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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The only office not physically touching the others on Beaverboard Row, intentionally set apart, is a little corrugated shack, stovepipe coming out the top, pieces of automobile lying around rusted solid in the yard, piles of wood under rain-colored and failing canvas, a house trailer with its tires and one wheel tilted forlorn in the spanging of the cold rain at its weathered outsides ...
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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His trembling hand sent the bullet spanging into the wooden frame of the door.
Get Out of Our Skies! E. K. Jarvis
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For a moment there was imminent peril for the horses, more in the yawning hole than in the spanging of badly aimed bullets.
The Rainbow Trail Zane Grey 1905
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These brawny, half-naked, sweaty giants -- what a grand spanging music of labor rang from under their hammers!
The U. P. Trail Zane Grey 1905
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He plodded down the trail, scowling blackly and viciously spanging the wire.
Freckles 1904
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He plodded down the trail, scowling blackly and viciously spanging the wire.
Freckles Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
whichbe commented on the word spanging
"Spare change?"-ing. Pan handling, begging, etc.
May 19, 2008