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stelling
stelling
English
Noun
stelling (plural stellings)
- A site or position (especially at shoreline or with reference to (former) Dutch colonies)
- 1951, W. I. B. Crealock, Vagabonding Under Sail, Hastings House (New York), page 138:
- For a few pennies we could have a breakfast of pineapple, paw-paw, grapefruit and bananas, which could be bought a hundred yards from the stelling.
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Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology
Noun
stelling f (plural stellingen, diminutive stellinkje n)
- position, configuration
- Stelling van Amsterdam — Defense line of Amsterdam
- thesis, contention
- sentence
- theorem