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Webster 1913 Edition


Stell

Stell

,
Verb.
T.
[AS.
stellan
. √163.]
To place or fix firmly or permanently.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Stell

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Noun.
[See
Stell
,
Verb.
T.
]
1.
A prop; a support, as for the feet in standing or cilmbing.
[Scot.]
2.
A partial inclosure made by a wall or trees, to serve as a shelter for sheep or cattle.
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

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stell

stell

See also: stëll

English

Verb

stell (third-person singular simple present stells, present participle stelling, simple past and past participle stelled or stold)

  1. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To set; place; fix.
    • 1609, Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets:
      Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd
      Thy beauty's form in table of my heart; [...]
  2. (transitive, Britain dialectal, Scotland) To place in position; set up, fix, plant; prop, mount.

Etymology 2

Alteration of stall, after the verb to stell.

Noun

stell (plural stells)

  1. (archaic) A place; station.
  2. A stall; a fold for cattle.
  3. (Scotland) A prop; a support, as for the feet in standing or climbing.
Related terms

German

Verb

stell

  1. Imperative singular of stellen.