stang

Stang-riding continued up to twenty-five years ago in spite of the opposition of the police.

I use the word "stang" here to please Jimmieboy, by the way.

Offenders of this description are mounted a-straddle on a long pole, or stang, supported upon the shoulders of their companions.

Stang: an old word for a perch, sixteen feet and a half, also for a rood of ground.

There is believed to have been no example of riding the stang in Cumberland or Westmorland during the last half century.