stell
see also: Stell
Verb
Stell
Proper noun
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see also: Stell
Verb
stell (stells, present participle stelling; past and past participle stelled)
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To place in position; set up, fix, plant; prop, mount.
- (transitive, obsolete) To portray; delineate; display.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece, 1443–44:
- To this well-painted piece is Lucrece come,
- To find a face where all distress is stelled.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 24:
- Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd
- Thy beauty's form in table of my heart ...
- 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece, 1443–44:
stell (plural stells)
- (archaic) A place; station.
- A stall; a fold for cattle.
- (Scotland) A prop; a support, as for the feet in standing or climbing.
- (Scotland) A still.
- 1786, Robert Burns, "The Author's Earnest Cry And Prayer":
- 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!
- 1791, Robert Burns, "Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation":
- 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!
- 1786, Robert Burns, "The Author's Earnest Cry And Prayer":
Stell
Proper noun
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