subs. (common).—1.  A blow, a whack; a beating, a banging. As verb = to flog, thrash. Also (2) a banging noise, and as verb = to clatter, throw with violence.

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  1855.  BROWNING, Up at a Villa—Down in the City, ix. Bang-WHANG-WHANG goes the drum.

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  1890.  C. D. WARNER, Their Pilgrimage, xv. The WHANG of the bass drum.

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  3.  (colloquial).—A slice, chunk, DOLLOP (q.v.). Also as verb = to cut in large strips, slices, or chunks.

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  1678.  RAY, Proverbs, 386. Of other men’s lether, men take large WHANGES.

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  d. 1796.  BURNS, Holy Fair. Wi’sweet-milk cheese in mony a WHANG.

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  d. 1803.  W. BEATTIE, The Yule Feast.

        At last, came cheese, to crown the feast,
Of Buchan weight, a stane at least;
My uncle set it to his breast,
          And WHANG’D it down.

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  4.  (American).—Formerly, in Maine and some other parts of New England, a house-cleaning party; a gathering of neighbours to aid one of their number in cleaning a house (Century).

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  See WHANGER.

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