stang

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A wooden bar; a pole.
• noun The bar of a door.
• noun A rod, pole, or perch used in the measurement of land.
• noun A sting.
• noun The weever, a fish. Also stangster.
• noun A Siamese coin.
• An obsolete or dialectal preterit of sting.
• To sting.
• To throb with pain; sting.
• To cause a sharp, sudden pain; inflict a sting.
• noun An obsolete form of stank.
• To cause to ride on a stang.
• noun A bar or pole, in a kind of warp-dressing machine, over which the warp passes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• Archaic imp. of sting.
• noun A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake.
• noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch.
• noun a projectile consisting of two half balls united by a bar; a bar shot. See Illust. of Bar shot, under Bar.
• noun to be carried on a pole on men's shoulders. This method of punishing wife beaters, etc., was once in vogue in some parts of England.
• intransitive verb Prov. Eng. To shoot with pain.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb dialect, rare Simple past of sting.
• verb intransitive, Scotland To shoot with pain, to sting.
• verb transitive, Scotland To spear; to sting.
• noun archaic or obsolete A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake.
• noun archaic or obsolete In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch.