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Definition of Stillion
1. n. A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying.
Definition of Stillion
1. Noun. A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stillion
1. stilling [n -S] - See also: stilling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stillion
Literary usage of Stillion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A practical treatise on brewing, and on storing of beer by William Black (1835)
"LS means light stillion yeast, or what has been immediately or lately thrown ...
MSS signifies middling solid stillion, or what has been thrown off the beer ..."
2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"... arranged in rows side by side on a wooden trough or stillion, about 2 feet
from the ground. The beer remains in these casks for some days, ..."
3. A Handbook of Testing: Materials / by C.A.M. Smith by Cades Alfred Middleton Smith (1911)
"The length of the " stillion " is usually so calibrated that from the position
of the weight along this arm we can at once read off the load on the specimen ..."
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