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Steps to cross a wall
Answer for the clue "Steps to cross a wall ", 5 letters:
stile
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Word definitions for stile in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English stigel , stile "device for climbing, ladder," related to stigen "to climb," from Proto-Germanic *stig- "to climb" (see stair ). An arrangement to allow persons to pass but not sheep and cattle.
Usage examples of stile.
If she were getting over a stile, she gripped his hands in a little hard anguish, and began to lose her presence of mind.
Stile could handle a difficult horse as well as an easy one, bareback as well as saddled.
Stile, but none matched his total expertise, Stile could handle a difficult horse as well as an easy one, bareback as well as saddled.
When the approaching mosso sensed his presence and slowed to a stop, he dropped a coin in the stile and stepped on.
He was good on the theremin, Stile was quite ready to challenge in the classification of music, but would prefer a normal, hand-powered instrument.
Blue Demesnes, Stile uninvoked the spells, became visible and full-weight, and turned Neysa out to graze.
Ezra Stiles, president of Yale, in a letter informing Adams that he had received an honorary degree from Yale, said he rejoiced at the thought of Adams for Vice President.
Laurette would sometimes seat herself upon a stile or a fragment of rock, and taking her lute, which she knew how to touch with exquisite pathos, would play some charming air which she accompanied with her voice, till the soul of Enrico was lost in an extasy of delight, from which he was reluctantly awakened.
If a person who prys into the characters of others, with no other design but to discover their faults, and to publish them to the world, deserves the title of a slanderer of the reputations of men, why should not a critic, who reads with the same malevolent view, be as properly stiled the slanderer of the reputation of books?
Grandpa Stile and Granddam Neysa told me that, and showed me how it be so, and I believe it.
Stile wondered whether the citizens of ancient Harappa, in the Indian subcontinent of Earth, had had a similar attitude.
Chapter 8 A battle sung by the muse in the Homerican stile, and which none but the classical reader can taste Mr.
I cannot believe that Jones was designedly tempted by his fair one to look behind him, yet as she frequently wanted his assistance help her over stiles, and had besides many trips and other accidents, he was often obliged to turn about.
But Stile slapped him lightly on the flank with the free end of the leadline, startling him into motion.
Congregational pastors, Samuel Hopkins, the theologian, and the erudite Ezra Stiles, afterward president of Yale College, mutually opposed in theology and contrasted at every point of natural character, were at one in boldly opposing the business by which their parishioners had been enriched.