A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Pang, v. [Of uncertain origin; deriv. f. MDu., MLG. prangen to press, squeeze, has been suggested. Common, in sense b, in the mod. Sc., north. Eng. and north. Irish dialects.] a. ? To crush, defeat utterly. b. To cram, stuff, fill full. —a. 1535 Stewart 5631.
This Caratac … With litill feir hes pangit all the fect Or euer tha wist outher to fend or fle —b. 1637 Rutherford Lett. (1664) 9.
Hell will be empty at the day of judgment and heaven panged full 1642 A Second Discovery of the Northern Scout 13.
The muskateers had … panged their panches with butter-milk and whay
