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  • verb Present participle of spang.
  • verb Present participle of spange.

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Examples

  • As she dove for the door, her question was answered: gunshots erupted from the drilling platform, spanging off the bulkhead.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • As she dove for the door, her question was answered: gunshots erupted from the drilling platform, spanging off the bulkhead.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • As she dove for the door, her question was answered: gunshots erupted from the drilling platform, spanging off the bulkhead.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • As she dove for the door, her question was answered: gunshots erupted from the drilling platform, spanging off the bulkhead.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • The only office not physically touching the others on Beaverboard Row, intentionally set apart, is a little corrugated shack, stovepipe coming out the top, pieces of automobile lying around rusted solid in the yard, piles of wood under rain-colored and failing canvas, a house trailer with its tires and one wheel tilted forlorn in the spanging of the cold rain at its weathered outsides ...

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • His trembling hand sent the bullet spanging into the wooden frame of the door.

    Get Out of Our Skies! E. K. Jarvis

  • For a moment there was imminent peril for the horses, more in the yawning hole than in the spanging of badly aimed bullets.

    The Rainbow Trail Zane Grey 1905

  • These brawny, half-naked, sweaty giants -- what a grand spanging music of labor rang from under their hammers!

    The U. P. Trail Zane Grey 1905

  • He plodded down the trail, scowling blackly and viciously spanging the wire.

    Freckles 1904

  • He plodded down the trail, scowling blackly and viciously spanging the wire.

    Freckles Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

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  • "Spare change?"-ing. Pan handling, begging, etc.

    May 19, 2008