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stell

verb
/stɛl/

Etymology

From Middle English stellen, from Old English stellan (“to give a place to, set, place”), from Proto-West Germanic *stalljan (“to put, position”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to place, put, post, stand”). Cognate with Dutch stellen (“to set, put”), dated Low German stellen (“to put, place, fix”), German stellen (“to set, place, provide”), Old English steall (“position, place”). More at stall.

  1. derived from *stel-✻ — “to place, put, post, stand”
  2. inherited from *stalljan✻ — “to put, position”
  3. inherited from stellan — “to give a place to, set, place”
  4. inherited from stellen

Definitions

  1. To place in position

    To place in position; set up, fix, plant; prop, mount.

  2. To portray

    To portray; delineate; display.

    • To this well-painted piece is Lucrece come, To find a face where all distress is stelled.
    • Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd Thy beauty's form in table of my heart […]

  3. A place

    A place; station.

  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. A stall

      A stall; a fold for cattle.

    2. A prop

      A prop; a support, as for the feet in standing or climbing.

    3. A still.

      • 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!
      • 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!

    4. A surname.

    5. A diminutive of the female given name Stella.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA