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(chronology, obsolete or dialectal) An hour. / (obsolete) A tide, season. / (archaic or dialectal) A time, length of time, hour, while. / (archaic or dialectal) A brief span of time, moment, instant.

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stound

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Source Word

stound

IPA(Pronunciation)

/staʊnd/

Noun

dialectal obsolete archaic

(chronology, obsolete or dialectal) An hour. / (obsolete) A tide, season. / (archaic or dialectal) A time, length of time, hour, while. / (archaic or dialectal) A brief span of time, moment, instant.

Japanese Meaning

一時間（1時間の時間） / 潮や季節（時期） / ある一定の時間、期間、時刻 / 短い瞬間、一刹那

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We waited for a stound beneath the old clock tower before deciding to leave.

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古い時計台の下で一時間待ってから去ることにした。

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Sense（1）

(chronology, obsolete or dialectal) An hour.

What booth wilt thou have? our king reply'd / Now tell me in this stound

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Sense（2）

(obsolete) A tide, season.

Sense（3）

(archaic or dialectal) A time, length of time, hour, while.

He lay and slept, and swet a stound, / And became whole and sound.

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Sense（4）

(archaic or dialectal) A brief span of time, moment, instant.

Listen to me a little stound.

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Sense（5）

A moment or instance of urgency; exigence.

Sense（6）

(dialectal) A sharp or sudden pain; a shock, an attack.

No wonder that they cried unto the Lord, and felt a stound of despair shake their courage

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Sense（7）

A stroke or blow (from an object or weapon); (by extension) a lashing; scourging

How many pipes, as many sounds Do still impart To your Sonne's hart / As many deadly wounds : How many strokes, as many stounds, Each stroke a dart, Each stound a smart, Poore captive me confounds.

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Sense（8）

A fit, an episode or sudden outburst of emotion; a rush.

Several stounds of pain in the cleft between great and second toe (anterior tibial nerve). I forget which side, but I think it was the right. Slight pains in left temple, > pressure. Pain in upper part of right eyeball.

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