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Definition of Stell
1. v. t. To place or fix firmly or permanently.
2. n. A prop; a support, as for the feet in standing or cilmbing.
Definition of Stell
1. Verb. (transitive dialectal or obsolete) To set; place; fix. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive UK dialectal Scotland) To place in position; set up, fix, plant; prop, mount. ¹
3. Noun. (archaic) A place; station. ¹
4. Noun. A stall; a fold for cattle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stell
1. to establish [v STELLED, STEELD, STELLING, STELLS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stell
Literary usage of Stell
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of the Farm by Henry Stephens (1852)
"Every form of stell, therefore, that presents a straight face to the drift, ...
A stell of small diameter, euch an 7 yards, dividing а танк ni ..."
2. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"Hit ten war stell'd in hit head, this eyes were fixed, ... stell your feet, fix
your feet so as not to fall." Gall. ..."
3. The Annals of Natal: 1495 to 1845 by John Bird (1888)
"... FROM COMMANDER SIMON VAN DEE stell AND COUNCIL TO THE CHAM BEB ov XVII. 1689.
April 15 The Commander being meanwhile disinclined to keep the galiot, ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"stell-XET, STILL-NET, s. A net stretched out by stakes into, and sometimes quite
across, the channel of a river, S. This net is much used in ..."
5. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal ...by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"Chem. Soc., vol. ii (1844), p. 123, and Pharm. Journ., vol. iv, ser. i, p.
286; stell, in Amer. Journ. of Pharm., Sept., 1858, p. 392; Bentley, in Pharm. ..."
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