▪ I. wang1 Obs. exc. dial.
(wɒŋ)
Forms: 1 wange, wænge, wenge, wonge, 3–5 wong(e, 4–6 wang(e, (4 woong, 5 wangge, waynge, vange, 7 wongge, 9 dial. whang), 7– dial. wang.
[OE. wang, str. masc., wange, wk. neut., corresp. to OS. wanga fem., MDu. wange (mod.Du. wang fem.), MLG. wange neut., fem., OHG. wanga neut. (MHG. wange neut., mod.G. wange fem.), ON. vange wk. masc. (Norw. vange; Da. vanger pl. ‘cheeks’ of a press), Goth. *waggō, ? fem. or neut. (whence waggareis pillow = OE. wangere):—OTeut. *waŋgon-, -ōn-. The further etymology is obscure; some regard the word as cogn. w. OE. wang field, wong.]
† 1. The cheek. Obs.
| c 975 Rushw. Gosp. Matt. v. 39 Ᵹif hwa ðec slae on ðæt swiðran wonge vel ceke þin. c 1000 ælfric Saints' Lives xxiii. b. 556 Þonne astrehte ic me sylfe on eorðan and þa wangas mid tearum oferᵹeat. c 1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 20 Smyre mid þy þæt wenge. c 1300 Cursor M. 18308 Adam fell dun for-wit his fete And spak til him, wit wonges wete. a 1310 in Wright Lyric P. vi. 28 Nihtes when y wende ant wake, for-thi myn wonges waxeth won. c 1320 Sir Tristr. 732 Þe king biheld þat old, Hou his wonges were wete. c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. v. ix. 1968 Quhill wepyt, quhill scho wongys wete. c 1440 York Myst. x. 275 Thy wordis makis me my wangges to wete. |
2. A molar tooth: = wang-tooth.
| c 1386 Chaucer Reeve's T. 110 Swa werkes ay the wanges in his heed. 1901 F. E. Taylor Folk Sp. S. Lanc. (E.D.D.), Wang, a tooth; gen. a back tooth. |
▪ II. wang2, weng s.w. dial.
[Of uncertain origin; possibly a var. of wing n., which in some dialects denotes a part of a ploughshare.]
(See quots.)
| 1813 Vancouver Agric. Devon 117 The [plough-]beam..is seven feet long, furnished at the head with an horizontal and vertical graduated wang of rack-work. 1886 W. Somerset Word-bk., Wang, or Weng. 1. A strong iron fixed to the front end of the beam [of a plough], having notches by which the end of the foot-chain..is adjusted,..as may be needful, according to the width of furrow desired... 2. Of a cart—the iron loop or staple upon each shaft, to which is hooked on the chain of the vore-horse. |
▪ III. wang
var. wong dial., field.
▪ IV. wang
var. whang.