Crossword clues for stile
stile
- Steps for scaling a fence
- Fence-crossing aid
- Fence crossover
- Thing in a subway
- Subway access
- Steps for crossing a fence
- Set of steps by a fence
- Metro-station entrance
- Metro barrier
- Means of mounting a fence
- Means of crossing a fence
- Farm crossing
- Entrance device
- Window-frame divider
- Upright piece of a door
- Underground gate
- Turn ender
- Turn attachment
- Subway-station feature
- Subway-entrance barrier
- Subway token taker
- Subway swiping locale
- Subway swipe locale
- Subway pass?
- Subway entry gate
- Subway entry
- Subway entrance, e.g
- Subway entrance turner
- Steps to cross a wall
- Steps to climb over a fence
- Step crossing a wall
- Stadium attendance counter, perhaps
- Set of small stairs over a fence
- Rustic crossover
- Rotating subway gate
- Revolving entryway
- Passage on a farm
- Kind of turn?
- It turns a lot in rush hour
- It spins to let people in
- Field steps
- Field pass?
- Field crossing
- Fence-climber's aid
- Fence passage
- Fence crosser
- Fence bridger
- Farm gate
- Entry mechanism
- End of a turn?
- Country crossing
- Ballpark gate
- Animal stopper
- Animal blocker
- Metro entrance
- Fence feature, perhaps
- Part of a subway entrance
- Stadium entrance
- Steps that cross a fence
- Steps over a fence
- Token taker
- Subway station sight
- Subway entrance device
- Steps over a wall
- Turner in a subway
- Attendance counter
- Fence crossing
- Subway station device
- Vertical piece in a door frame
- It goes around at an amusement park
- Steps that a farmer might take
- Fence straddler
- Customer counter, maybe
- It makes a turn at the entrance
- Revolving feature
- Arena entrance feature
- Fixture at a subway entrance
- An upright that is a member in a door or window frame
- Upright panel piece
- Steps between farms
- Rural crossover
- Part of a doorframe
- Crooked site in a nursery rhyme
- Fence stairs
- Rural fence
- Door part
- Crossover on a pasture
- Meadow crossing
- Country crossover
- Rural crossing
- Set of steps between farms
- Rural structure
- Rural steps
- Support for a paneled door
- Doorframe part
- Pass between pastures
- Fence steps
- Fence opening
- Subway feature
- Subway gate
- Fence rail
- Entrance barrier
- Subway barrier
- Fence-crossing spot
- Revolver in a subway
- Part of a door frame
- Way through a fence
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stile \Stile\, n. [See Style.]
A pin set on the face of a dial, to cast a shadow; a style. See Style.
--Moxon.-
Mode of composition. See Style. [Obs.]
May I not write in such a stile as this?
--Bunyan.
Stile \Stile\, n. [OE. stile, AS. stigel a step, a ladder, from st[=i]gan to ascend; akin to OHG. stigila a stile. [root]164. See Sty, v. i., and cf. Stair.]
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A step, or set of steps, for ascending and descending, in passing a fence or wall.
There comes my master . . . over the stile, this way.
--Shak.Over this stile in the way to Doubting Castle.
--Bunyan. -
(Arch.) One of the upright pieces in a frame; one of the primary members of a frame, into which the secondary members are mortised.
Note: In an ordinary door the principal upright pieces are called stiles, the subordinate upright pieces mullions, and the crosspieces rails. In wainscoting the principal pieces are sometimes called stiles, even when horizontal.
Hanging stile, Pulley stile. See under Hanging, and Pulley.
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A set of steps surmounting a fence or wall, or a narrow gate or contrived passage through a fence or wall, which in either case allows people but not livestock to pass. 2 A vertical component of a panel or frame, such as that of a door or window. 3 A pin set on the face of a dial, to cast a shadow; a style. 4 (context obsolete English) A mode of composition; a style.
WordNet
n. an upright that is a member in a door or window frame
Wikipedia
A stile is a structure which provides people a passage through or over a fence or boundary via steps, ladders, or narrow gaps. Stiles are often built in rural areas along footpaths, fences, walls or hedges to prevent farm animals moving from one enclosure to another whilst allowing path users still to use the route.
A stile is a structure such as steps allowing pedestrians to cross a hedge or fence. Stile may also mean:
- Ashok Leyland STiLE, a MPV manufactured by Ashok Leyland.
- Chapel Stile, a hamlet in the parish of Lakes, Cumbria, in northwest England
- High Stile, a mountain in the western part of the Lake District in northwest England
- Stile antico ("ancient style"), a style of music composition
- Stile concitato ("agitated style"), a Baroque style of music
- Stile Project or StileNET, formerly a counter-culture website
- Rail and stile, or frame and panel, a woodworking construction technique
- Stile moderno ("modern style") or seconda pratica, a style of music composition
- Stile, a side of a backdrop in a theatre: see Flats (theatre)
- Stile, the main character in the Apprentice Adept series by Piers Anthony
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.