The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stail \Stail\ (st[=a]l), n. A handle, as of a mop; a stale. [Eng.]
Wiktionary
n. (context UK obsolete English) (alternative form of stale a long, thin handle, as of mops, rakes, &c. English)
Usage examples of "stail".
Kill loup, he thought, and this attack would stail, but he could not see the Brigadier among the mass of grey uniforms into which he fired his rifle indiscriminately.
She prayed for the soul of Billy Stail, which had been released from his bloody body on this very spot just yesterday morning.
The other was a dusty clearing surrounded by a grove of trees where, yesterday, the boy had killed Billy Stail and taken Mary Beth.
In twenty minutes they were within a half-mile of the intersection where Canal Road ended at Route 112the place where Billy Stail had been killed.
He paid Billy Stail to go to Blackwater Landing to kill her and steal the evidencethe bones.
Looking into the murder of Billy Stail and the abductions of Lydia Johansson and Mary Beth McConnell.
Billy Stail and the abductions of Lydia Johansson and Mary Beth McConnell.
He paid Billy Stail to go to Blackwater Landing to kill her and steal the evidence -the bones.