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Stell

//stɛl// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A surname.
2
A diminutive of the female given name Stella. informal

Noun

1
A place; station. archaic
2
A stall; a fold for cattle.
3
A prop; a support, as for the feet in standing or climbing. Scotland
4
A still. Scotland
"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!"

Verb

1
To place in position; set up, fix, plant; prop, mount. Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive
"How he escaped a broken neck in that dreadful place no human being will ever ken. The sweat, he has told me, stood in cold drops upon his forehead; he scarcely was aware of the saddle in which he sat, and his eyes were stelled in his head so that he saw nothing but the sky ayont him."
2
To portray; delineate; display. obsolete, transitive
"To this well-painted piece is Lucrece come, To find a face where all distress is stelled."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

Alteration of stall, after the verb to stell.

Etymology 3

From stell ("prop") or stell ("place")?

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