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Webster 1913 Edition
Stell
Stell
,Verb.
T.
[AS.
stellan
. √163.] To place or fix firmly or permanently.
[Obs.]
Shak.
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.]
Definition 2024
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)
- (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; [...]
- Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd
- 1609, Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets:
- (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)
- (archaic) A place; station.
- A stall; a fold for cattle.
- (Scotland) A prop; a support, as for the feet in standing or climbing.