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Stull vs Stell - What's the difference?

stull | stell |

As a noun stull

is (uk|dialect) a framework of timber covered with boards to support rubbish or to protect miners from falling stones.

As an adjective stell is

quiet, silent, calm.

As a verb stell is

.

stull

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) A framework of timber covered with boards to support rubbish or to protect miners from falling stones.
    • (Webster 1913)

    stell

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) stellen, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

  • (transitive, dialectal, or, obsolete) To set; place; fix.
  • * 1609 , Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets :
    • Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd Thy beauty's form in table of my heart; [...]
  • To place in position; set up, fix, plant; prop, mount.

    • Etymology 2

    Alteration of (stall), after the verb (term).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A place; station.
  • A stall; a fold for cattle.
  • (Scotland) A prop; a support, as for the feet in standing or climbing.
    • Related terms
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