stell

British

/ stɛl /

noun

a shelter for cattle or sheep built on moorland or hillsides

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Etymology

Origin of stell

C19

Example Sentences

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Ther thes money they leyde,They toke bot a yeman to kepe;Roben befor the potter he breyde,And bad hem stond stell.

From A Collection of Ballads by Lang, Andrew

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!

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

Stell commonly means a stall, or fixed place; but the form stell for steel occurs; e.g.

From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)

In myde the borde and festinit in the stell, In the midst they encounter, and fastened in the steel.

From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)

Some are farmers, mail men iron and stell workers, mechanics and of all classes of work.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 by Various

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