Stile

Quick meaning: Stile is a noun meaning A vertical component of a frame or panel, such as that of a door, window, or ladder.

Meaning

A vertical component of a frame or panel, such as that of a door, window, or ladder.

More Meanings

1. A set of one or more steps surmounting a fence or wall, or a narrow gate or contrived passage through a fence or wall, which in either case allows people but not livestock to pass.
2. Obsolete form of style.

Example Sentences

May I not write in such a ſtile as this? / In ſuch a method too, and yet not miſs / Mine end, thy good? why may it not be done?

They are graciously and lovingly received, the Mayor hath thanks for his late bloody Act, which was stiled and excellent piece of Justice

Marianne's preserver, as Margaret, with more elegance than precision, stiled Willoughby, called at the cottage early the next morning to make his personal inquiries.

This Fellow, I ſay, ſtiled himſelf a Lawyer, but was indeed a moſt vile Petty-fogger, without Senſe or Knowledge of any Kind; one of thoſe who may be termed Train-bearers to the Law; [...]

Word Forms

• stiles
• stiling
• stiled

Synonyms for stile

Depending on context, synonyms include rail, stringer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include waymarked, stairway, step, stair, stairgate, step-through.

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