stance

The manner, pose, or posture in which one stands.

• The fencer’s stance showed he was ready to begin.

One's opinion or point of view.

• I don’t agree with your stance on gun control.

A place to stand; a position, a site, a station.

• No! sooner may the Saxon lance / Unfix Benledi from his stance, / Than doubt or terror can pierce through / The unyielding heart of Robert Dhu; […]
• The British host had stood / That morn 'gainst charge of sword and lance / As their own ocean-rocks hold stance, / But when thy voice had said, "Advance!" / They were their ocean's flood.— […]

A place to stand; a position, a site, a station.; A foothold or ledge on which to set up a belay.specifically

• In a harness belay, the stance itself is the belayer's first line of defense, reducing the load the anchor must hold. The anchor in this case serves as little more than a backup (albeit a critical one) to the stance.

A place for buses or taxis to await passengers; a bus stop, a taxi rank.Scotland

• The number of Carriages at each of the Stances or divisions of Stances, and the spaces to be occupied, shall be fixed from time to time as may be found necessary. In the event of any New Stance being appointed during the currency of these R

A place where a fair or market is held; a location where a street trader can carry on business.Scotland

• To the action by the proprietor of a tenement in burgh against the proprietor of the adjoining stance to recover one-half the cost of a mutual gable, of which the defender had taken the use, it was pleaded in defence (1) that the mutual gab

A stanza.obsoleterare

• Other Muſique, and voyces; and this ſecond Stance was ſung, directing their obſeruance to the King. […] This ended the Phœbades ſung the third Stance.

To place, to position, to station; (specifically) to put (cattle) into an enclosure or pen in preparation for sale.Scotlandtransitive

• Rob Roy ſtood watch / On a hill for to catch / The booty for ought that I ſa', man, / For he ne'er advanced, / From the place he was ſtanc'd, / 'Till no more to do there at a' man, […]