Stean vs Stern - What's the difference?
stean | stern |
A vessel made of clay or stone; a pot of stone or earth.
A wall of brick, stone, or cement, used as a lining, as of a well, cistern, etc.; a steening.
A stone.
A large box of stones used for pressing cheese; a cheese-press.
To pelt with stones; throw stones at; stone.
To fit with stones; mend, line, pave, etc. with stones.
Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
* (John Dryden)
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* (William Wordsworth)
(nautical) The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.
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, title= (figurative) The post of management or direction.
* (William Shakespeare)
The hinder part of anything.
The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
(l) (luminous dot appearing in the night sky)
As nouns the difference between stean and stern
is that stean is a vessel made of clay or stone; a pot of stone or earth while stern is the rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.As a verb stean
is to pelt with stones; throw stones at; stone.As an adjective stern is
having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.stean
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Compare (l).Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) stenen, from (etyl) . (got).Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- to stean a well
stern
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) stern, sterne, sturne, from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- stern as tutors, and as uncles hard
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins.}}
- these barren rocks, your stern inheritance
Etymology 2
Most likely from (etyl) , from the same Germanic root.Noun
(wikipedia stern) (en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Old Applegate, in the stern', just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the ' stern .}}
- and sit chiefest stern of public weal
- (Spenser)