# stong
## English
### Etymology

A form of stang (“staff; unit of land measure”).

### Noun

stong (plural stongs)
* (Lincolnshire, obsolete or historical) An area of land equivalent to a quarter of an acre; a rood; a stang.
** 1856, Pishey Thompson, The History and Antiquities of Boston: And the Villages of Skirbeck, Fishtoft, Freiston, Butterwick, Benington, Leverton, Leake, and Wrangle : Comprising the Hundred of Skirbeck, in the County of Lincoln : Including Also a History of the East, West, and Wildmore Fens, and Copious Notices of the Holland Or Haut-Huntre Fen, page 132:[…] with other 3 stong of land called Orchortofts, the which Humphrey Greyfe holds by year, paying therefore . . . . . Also for farm of 2 acres pasture, lying in Wythorne - tofts, the which William Fysher holds by year . . . . . Also for farm of one stong of land lying in Algarkyke, […]
** 1903, Fenland Notes and Queries: A Quarterly Antiquarian Journal for the Fenland, in the Counties of Huntingdon, Cambridge, Lincoln, Northampton, Norfolk, and Suffolk, page 296:Thomas, son of Gilbert, 1 acre 3 stong. In marsh, 1 acre 20 perches. Conan, his brother, 4 acres 3 stong. In marsh, 1 acre and half a stong. […]
** 1924, Lincoln Record Society, The Publications of the Lincoln Record Society:The terriers mention a little close or pingle, containing half a stong, called 'the Chappell yarde,' which is surrounded by the lands of Dunsthorpe grange on every side. This close has now been thrown into the adjoining grass field […]
** 1965, H[erbert] E[noch] Hallam, Settlement and Society: A Study of the Early Agrarian History of South Lincolnshire (Cambridge Studies in Economic History), Cambridge, Cambs.: Cambridge University Press, →LCCN, pages 14, 15, and 160:None the less the figures in the survey are of interest. They are: Crosneuland, 29 acres 1 stong 2 perches 52½ feet divided into thirty-six pieces; Estneuland, 14 acres 1½ stongs 1½ perches 27 feet divided into seven pieces; Westneuland, 15½ acres 1½ stongs 18 perches 31 feet divided into eighty-one pieces. […] Note that 4 stongs equal 1 acre and 40 square perches 1 stong. […] Sixty perches, forming one piece, are simply in Neuland and the rest is either in nouo neulond or in ueteri neulond—22 acres 35½ perches 26½ feet in the former, in fifteen pieces; 12 acres 1 stong 5 perches 22½ feet in the latter, in twelve pieces. The whole amounts to 34 acres 3 stongs 2 perches 21 1 feet in twenty-eight pieces. […] Terra mensurata was usually measured in acres, stongs (or roods) and perches, but often the measurement was taken to the nearest foot and sometimes to the nearest half foot.

### Anagrams

* Tongs, tongs

## Faroese
### Etymology

From Old Norse stǫng, from Proto-Germanic *stangō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈstɔŋk/
* Rhymes: -ɔŋk

### Noun

stong f (genitive singular stangar, plural stengur)
* bar, rod, pole
* (poetic) long spear, lance
* (soccer) post

#### Derived terms

* flaggstong
* fleygastong

## Middle English
### Noun

stong
* Alternative form of stang

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse stǫng, from Proto-Germanic *stangō. Cognate with Icelandic stöng, Danish stang, Swedish stång.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stɔŋː/

### Noun

stong f (definite singular stonga, indefinite plural stenger, definite plural stengene)
* rod, pole
    Han vart slegen med ei stong av jarn.He was hit with a rod made of iron.

#### Inflection

Historical inflection of stong
indefinite singular
definite singular
indefinite plural
definite plural
Aasen$^1$
Stong f
Stongi
Stenger
Stengerna
1901
stenger (stengar)
stengerne (stengane)
1917
stonga, stongi
stenger
stengene, stengerne
1938
stonga [stongi]
stengene
2012 (current)
stong f
stonga
stenger
stengene
Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier. Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen. $^1$Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century. :

### See also

* stang (Bokmål)

### References

* “stong” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
* “stong”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
* “stong” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring