Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0019090, Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:20:45 -0200

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Gary Lipon to jansymello [I mean, the substantive "Stange" meaning "perch,"] I don't get an entry for "stange" meaning "perch" in thefreedictionary.com, my first goto source for words, only a town in Norway. So I'm confused as to what you mean...The peculiar thing is that "rail" and "stang" are both monosyllabic and thus work equally well in terms of prosody.Surely VN would have considered a common word like "rail"; thus must of really intended "stang"...

JM: I originally checked in the Oxford Duden Dictionary (German), but on-line there is Stange, indicating perch, stick,rail...:
Stange Stange f , -, -n a (=langer, runder Stab) pole
(=Querstab) bar
(=Ballettstange) barre
(=Kleiderstange, Teppichstange) rail
(=Gardinenstange, Leiste für Treppenläufer) rod
(=Vogelstange) perch
(=Hühnerstange) perch, roost
(=Gebissstange) bit, (Hunt) (=Schwanz) brush
(=Geweihteil) branch (of antlers) (fig) (=dünner Mensch) beanpole inf b (=länglicher Gegenstand) stick
eine Stange Zigaretten a carton of 200 cigarettes

c (=zylinderförmiges Glas) tall glass
d (Redewendungen) ein Anzug von der Stange a suit off the peg (Brit) or rack (US)
von der Stange kaufen to buy off the peg (Brit) or rack (US)
jdn bei der Stange halten inf to keep or hold sb
bei der Stange bleiben inf to stick at it inf
jdm die Stange halten inf to stick up for sb inf , to stand up for sb
eine (schöne or ganze) Stange Geld inf a tidy sum inf


Translation Stange in the German-English Collins dictionary

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