An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
Chapter 44 : Su. G. _baang_, tumult, Isl. _bang-a_, to strike. _To_ BANG _out_, _v. a._ To draw out

Su. G. _baang_, tumult, Isl. _bang-a_, to strike.

_To_ BANG _out_, _v. a._ To draw out hastily, S.

_Ross._

BANG, _s._

1. An action expressive of haste; as, He _cam wi' a bang_, S.

_In a bang_, suddenly, S.

_Ross._

2. A great number, a crowd, S.

_Ramsay._

_To_ BANG, _v. n._ To push off with a boat, in salmon-fis.h.i.+ng, without having seen any fish in the channel, Aberd.

_Law Case._

BANGEISTER, BANGSTER, _s._

1. A violent and disorderly person, who regards no law but his own will.

_Maitland Poems._

2. A braggart, a bully, S.

_Ross._

3. A loose woman, Clydes.

Isl. _bang-a_, to strike, _bang-ast_, to run on one with violence.

BANGSTRIE, _s._ Strength of hand, violence to another in his person or property.

From _Bangster_.

_Acts Ja. VI._

BANKERS, _s. pl._ Apparently the same with ~Bancouris~, q. v.

BANKROUT, _s._ A bankrupt.

_Skene._

Fr. _banquerout_, Ital. _bancorotto_, Teut. _banckrote_, id.

BANNOCK, BONNOCK, BANNO, _s._ A cake, baked of dough in a pretty wet state, and toasted on a girdle, S.

_Bannatyne Poems._

Ir. _boinneog_, _bunna_, Gael. _bonnach_, a cake.

_Bear-bannock_, _s._ A cake of this description, baked of barley-meal, S.

_Ritson._

BANNOCK-FLUKE, _s._ The name given to the genuine turbot, from its flat form as resembling a cake, S.

_Stat. Acc._

BANNOCK-HIVE, _s._ Corpulence, induced by eating plentifully, S.

V. ~Hive~.

_Morison._

BANRENTE, _s._ A banneret.

_Acts Ja. I._

BANSTICKLE, _s._ The three-spined stickle-back, gasterosteus aculeatus, Linn, S.

_Barry._

BANWIN, _s._ As many reapers as may be served by one _bandster_, S.

Fife, S. A.

A. S. _band_, vinculum, and _win_, labor.

BAP, _s._

1. A thick cake baked in the oven, generally with yeast, whether made of oat-meal, barley-meal, flour of wheat, or a mixture, S.

Chapter 44 : Su. G. _baang_, tumult, Isl. _bang-a_, to strike. _To_ BANG _out_, _v. a._ To draw out
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