Stull

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A framework of timber covered with boards to support rubbish or to protect miners from falling stones. UK, dialectal
  2. 2
    Any timber prop to support a structure.
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    An unincorporated community in Douglas County, Kansas, United States, named after a postmaster.
  3. 3
    A census-designated place in Noxen Township, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Etymology

Related to German Stollen (“stull”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stullô (“support, post, beam”), but its route into English is uncertain. Perhaps borrowed from Middle High German stolle. Doublet of stollen. Compare also stum.

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