stanking

Verb (1)

stank (third-person singular simple present stanks, present participle stanking, simple past and past participle stanked)

1. To stink; to smell bad.
   • I just ignored him because he stanked worst than I did.2010, Michael Lee, Time to Crime: Doing Time, Listening to Crime, page 39
2. 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.2010, Brooke, Detroit, Lenacrave and Cleveland, page 295

Verb (2)

stank (third-person singular simple present stanks, present participle stanking, simple past and past participle stanked)

1. 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.1881, John Edwin Cussans, History of Hertfordshire - Volume 3, page 321
2. (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.1895, G. Christopher Davies, “The Dee”, in The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, volume 1, page 251
3. (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.1884, North of England Institute of Mining Engineers, Transactions - Volume 33, page 155

Verb (3)

stank (third-person singular simple present stanks, present participle stanking, simple past and past participle stanked)

1. 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...1796, The Scottish Register, page 252

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