Stell
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /stɛl/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Stell is a verb meaning (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To place in position; set up, fix, plant; prop, mount.
Meaning
(transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To place in position; set up, fix, plant; prop, mount.
More Meanings
- (transitive, obsolete) To portray; delineate; display.
- A stall; a fold for cattle.
- (Scotland) A prop; a support, as for the feet in standing or climbing.
- (Scotland) A still.
- (archaic) A place; station.
Example Sentences
To this well-painted piece is Lucrece come, To find a face where all distress is stelled.
Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd Thy beauty's form in table of my heart […]
The English stell we could disdain, Secure in valour's station; But English gold has been our bane— Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!
Paint Scotland greetin owre her thrissle; Her mutchkin stowp as toom's a whissle; An' damn'd excisemen in a bussle, Seizin a stell, Triumphant crushin't like a mussel, Or limpet shell!
Word Forms
- stells
- stelling
- stelled
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ge, stella, locate, position, collocate, stand.
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