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stank

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stank1
1. a small cofferdam, esp one of timber made watertight with clay
2. Scot and northern English dialect a pond or pool
stank2 Dialect
a drain, as in a roadway


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As it was, miserably and helplessly, not half himself, a puppet dreamer in a half-nightmare, he knew, as a restless sleeper awakening between vexing dreams, that he was being transported head-downward out of the canoe house that stank of death, through the village that was only less noisome, and up a path under lofty, wide-spreading trees that were beginning languidly to stir with the first breathings of the morning wind.
Jerry of the Islands by London, Jack View in context
What it did, I can tell you in two words--it stank.
The Moonstone by Collins, Wilkie View in context
It actually stank with evil, and it was always twilight.
The Red One by London, Jack View in context
 
 
 
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