Crossword clues for stell
stell
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stell \Stell\, v. t. [AS. stellan. [root]163.]
To place or fix firmly or permanently. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Stell \Stell\, n. [See Stell, v. t.]
A prop; a support, as for the feet in standing or cilmbing. [Scot.]
A partial inclosure made by a wall or trees, to serve as a shelter for sheep or cattle. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to fix in position" (obsolete or dialectal), Old English stellan "to place, put, set," from West Germanic *stalljan (source also of German stellen; see stall (n.1)).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. 1 (context transitive dialectal or obsolete English) To set; place; fix. 2 (context transitive UK dialectal Scotland English) To place in position; set up, fix, plant; prop, mount. Etymology 2
n. 1 (context archaic English) A place; station. 2 A stall; a fold for cattle. 3 (context Scotland English) A prop; a support, as for the feet in standing or climbing.
Wikipedia
Stell is a name for a deep pool in a river where salmon rest and are fished, such as that found at Amble in Northumberland, England.
Fishing using stell nets was made illegal by the Tweed Act in Britain in 1857.
Usage examples of "stell".
Zeebron Stell, with his hefty build, swarthy skin, short-cropped black hair and shaggy mustache, almost an inverse of Brose, brought them back on track.
Duggan had little doubt that Brose was saying similar things to Stell too, who was also a candidate for the slot.
Stell asked as Stoner passed the cash register at the entrance to the Highlands Room.
Settland Road past the towns and villages of Dalers TrothLittle Stell, Candlerstown, and Dale House, the seat of Earl Rorick Longarren, who would have wed the young woman stolen from Raemon Becks caravan.
The memory of Strudel, Stollen, Kuchen and roast turkey, made her mouth water.
But behold my good mother, now my unhappy fortune is renewed and encreased : For I dreamed in my sleepe, that I was pulled out of our house, out of our chamber, and out of my bed, and that I removed about in solitary and unknowne places, calling upon the name of my unfortunate husband, and how that he, as soone as he perceived that he was taken away, even smelling with perfumes and crowned with garlands, did trace me by the steppes, desiring the aid of the people to assist him, in that his wife was violently stollen away.
I Baudolino son of Galiaudo Gagliaudo of the Aulari with a head that looks like a lion halleluia gratias to the Allmighty may he forgive me ego habeo facto the greatest stealing of my life, I mean from the cabbinet of the Bishop Oto I have stollen many pages that may belong to the Immperial Chancellor and I have scraped clean almost all of them excepting where the writing would not come off et now I have much parchmint to write down what I want which is my own story even if I don't know to write Latin.
Whereunto I answered, Verily (quoth I) you tell truth, for I can finde no place in all the world which I like better than this, but I greatly feare the blind inevitable trenches of witches, for they say that the dead bodies are digged out of their graves, and the bones of them that are burnt be stollen away, and the toes and fingers of such as are slaine are cut off, and afflict and torment such as live.
That there have been great sinful neglects in sparing others, who by their divinings about things future, or discovering things secret, as stollen Goods, etc.
Twisting in the air, Brinn landed lightly on the ground, came bounding upward again as Stell and Harn grappled with their kinsman.
Between the potato pancake booth and a stand selling Christmas stollen, an unobtrusive little man, who might just as well be selling Christmas cookies or cut-rate fountain pens or razor blades, is holding out a half-filled cardboard box.
Three generations had created a reputation for fruit pies and stollen, lebkuchen and shoofly and the best crunchy bread in the area.