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▪ I. stell, n.1 Sc. and north.|stɛl|
Also 2 stelle, 4, 7 stel-, 6–7 steill, staill, 8 stale, 7–9 still.
[app. repr. OE. (Northumb.) stællo catching of fish, prob. from the root of steall place (stall n.1), stęllan to place.]
A place in a river provided with arrangements for spreading salmon-nets. In Cumberland, ‘a barrier placed across a river’ (Eng. Dial. Dict.).
1099–1128Charter in Feodarium Prior. Dunelm. (Surtees) 98 note, And haliware stelle ic habbe ᵹetyðed Sc̃e cuhtberht his aᵹen into his cyrce. 1467Dunfermline Reg. (Bannatyne Club) 358 Inquisicion..langand þe merchis..betwix þe fischingis of þe ald stell pertening to þe Abbot..and [etc.]. 1574Rec. Monast. Kinloss (1872) 158 The remanent fischeingis of the yardis and stellis upoun the watter of Findorne. 1583Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 186/1 Salmonum piscaries de lie staillis et Yairis super aquam de Fyndhorne. 1595Ibid. 77/2 Fretum de Kessok et piscariam ejusdem vocatam the Steill. 1707Fountainhall Decis. (1759) II. 363 The said stells..are deep ponds, pools and ditches in the river, where the salmon haunting are taken in nets spread beneath them. 1783Ann. Reg., Chron. 215 An action was brought against the corporation of Carlisle, for having a stell across the river Eden. 1794W. Hutchinson Hist. Cumberld. II. 522 The river produces..excellent salmon (which are taken in draw-nets since the destruction of the stell at King-garth). 1874A. Hislop Scot. Anecd. 542 A still means space in which to extend a net, and sweep round with a view to enclose fish.
b. Comb., as stell (salmon) fishery, stell fishing; stell-net [cf. WFlem. stelnet and stell v.], (see quot. 1870); † stell yair, a ‘yair’ or fish-lock built at the issue of a ‘stell’.
1792Statist. Acc. Scot. III. 4 There is belonging to the public good of Dingwall, a *stell salmon fishery on Conan. 1798Surv. Moray 188 Mr. Brodie of Brodie has a still-fishery on the east side of the river.
1707Fountainhall Decis. (1759) II. 363 Five *stell salmond fishings in the river of Findhorn. 1794Statist. Acc. Scot. XII. 270 The herrings are the only fish caught in this coast, except a few salmon caught at Stale fishing. 1806Morison Decis. XXXIII. 14258 The stell fishing in the ferry of Kessoch..is properly a sea fishing.
c1303Reg. Pal. Dunelm. (Rolls) III. 40 Quatuor *stelnettes, duo rednettes. 1564in Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1584, 213/1 Cum piscationibus salmonum lie stell nettis, in dominio de Lorne. 1602Ibid. 484/2 Piscationes salmonum vocatas lie Steill-nett of the Priore-schottis on the water mouth of Aw..cum piscatione vocata Staill-nett de Keanlochtive. 1792Statist. Acc. Scot. IV. 557 A still net has been tried on the lake with some success. 1845New Statist. Acc. Scot. XIV. ii. 206 Salmon Fishery... The fish are chiefly caught with the stell-net. 1870Law Rep., Comm. Pl. V. 695 A stell net, that is, a net fastened to stakes across the whole bed of the river. 1900Law Rep., App. Cases 406 It is denied that toot and haul nets, or stell nets, or either of them, are fixed engines.
1600Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 341/1 Terras de Culmoir, cum lie *stel-yair, halecum et salmonum piscationibus [etc.].
▪ II. † stell, n.2 Obs.
[? a. Du. stel.]
A stand for a barrel.
a1658Cleveland Sing-song xiv. Poems (1659) 157 Her brests..Like swelling Buts of lively Wine Upon their ivory stells did shine. 1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss., Stell, a stand or stall for beer barrels. 1881Leicester Gloss., Stell, a stand or frame to support barrels.
▪ III. stell, n.3 dial.|stɛl|
[Of obscure origin: perh. a use of OE. stęll (stiell, styll) a leap, related to stęllan to leap, jump.]
An open ditch or brook.
1651in N. Riding Rec. V. 76 The inhabitants of Pottoe..[are presented] for not scouring their proportion of Traineham Stell. c1783Roxb. Ballads (1890) VII. 94 When fully intending to lead the whole field, A damn'd Stell held 'em both 'till the Fox he was kill'd. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss., Stell, a large open drain in a marsh. 1825Sporting Mag. XVI. 14 note, A stell is the Durham name for a brook whose banks are not firm. 1827Ibid. XXI. 33 We shall never get over that stell. 1878Susan Phillips On Seaboard 164 Where Tees sweeps into the Northern main, And the glittering ‘stells,’ and the link's long range. 1885Manch. City News 31 Jan. 2/4, I came upon a lane with a tiny brook crossing it, which in Yorkshire is called a stell. 1886W. H. Burnett Old Cleveland 126 This stable was built on an open stell, which rose and fell with the tide.
▪ IV. stell, n.4 Sc.|stɛl|
[Presumably related to stell v.]
An enclosure for giving shelter to sheep or cattle, usually circular, smaller than a ‘fold’ and with higher walls. Also a ring of trees serving as a shelter for sheep or cattle.
1766State of Proc., Dk. Roxburghe v. Pringle 10 At replacing the Cauld, the Workers did take Stones from a Stell the Deponent had built. 1829Brockett N.C. Gloss. (ed. 2), Stell, a fold or small enclosure for cattle. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 58 A stell may be formed of planting or high stone-wall. Either will afford shelter. 1886C. Scott Sheep Farming 126 ‘Stells’ were erected at various parts of the hills for sheltering the sheep.
▪ V. ‖ stell, n.5 S. Afr.|stɛl|
[Du. stel.]
A trap for wild animals.
1801J. Barrow Trav. Interior S. Afr. I. vi. 360 The animal had been shot through the body by a stell-roar or trap-gun, set by a Hottentot. 1852Barter Dorp & Veld viii. 116 As soon as he [the wolf] has seized the bait.., he tightens the string, releases the trigger, and if the stel is properly set, receives the bullet in his head. 1863W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting ix. 377 The lions had killed two zebras..and I set a stell (a spring gun) for them by the remains of one of the zebras. Ibid. 381 The Masaras set these spears (stells) for rhinoceros and other game. 1895J. G. Millais Breath fr. Veldt (1899) 264 A ‘still’..is formed by two rifles fixed to trees or posts.
▪ VI. † stell, n.6 Obs. rare—1.
In 7 pl. stels.
[Cf. stell v. 3.]
? An outline.
1657R. Ligon Barbadoes 82 So as the outmost stels, or profile of the figure, may be perfectly discerned.
▪ VII. [stell, n.7
a spurious word in Nares and subsequent Dicts., explained as ‘place, station’, is due to a misprint for castell (= castle) in Danett tr. Comines (ed. 1, 1596), corrected in later edd.
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▪ VIII. stell, v.|stɛl|
Forms: 1 stellan (3 sing. pres. steleþ, pa. tense -stelidæ, -stealde, -stalde), 3 stellen (pa. tense stalde, stolde, pa. pple. isteald), 5 stell.
[OE. stęllan, stiellan, styllan (also in combs. á-stęllan astell v., on-stęllan onstell v.) = OS. stellian, (M)Du. stellen, OHG., MHG., mod.G. stellen:—WGer. *stalljan, f. OTeut. *stallo- place, stall n.]
†1. trans. To set (an example); to establish (a law). Obs.
c893ælfred Orosius ii. ii. §1 Hwelce bisena he ðær stellende wæs. c897― Gregory's Past. C. xxviii. 191 Ðonne he oðrum yfele bisene steleþ. a1225Ancr. R. 6 Þe vttre riwle..nis for noþing elles istald bute forte seruie ðe inre. Ibid. 8 Þeos..ne beoð nout monnes fundles, ne riwle þet mon stolde. c1230Hali Meid. 19 Wedlac ham ikepte þat ilke lahe þat godd haueð istald for þe unstronge. c1275Serving Christ 60 in O.E. Misc. 92 He wolde þe lawe leoflyche holde As god..i þis world stolde.
2. Sc. To fix, post, place; chiefly, to station (oneself, troops), to place (cannon) in position.
c1470Henry Wallace iv. 430 In a dern woode thai stellit thaim full law. Ibid. vii. 868 Heich in Cragmor he maid it [a decapitated head] for to stand, Steild on a stayne for honour of Ireland. 1559Aberdeen Reg. (1844) I. 327 To desist and ceiss fra forther stelling and stenting of their netts athort the water. 1573R. Birrel Diary (1798) 20 The Englisch cannone..began to shoute at ye castell of Edinburghe, being steillit at foure several places, viz. 5 at Egers hous [etc.]. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 251 Thai..had with thame twa small cairted peices and stylled thame vpone the craigheid abone leith wynd. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. II. 298 The Jnglismen..raiset thair camp, to stel cannounes, and thair feild peices, at the hil of the place namet Pinkincleuch. 17..Lads of Wamphray vii. in Child Ballads III. 459 Twixt the Staywood Buss and Langside Hill, They stelld the broked cow and branded bull. 1819Scott Leg. Montrose x, Yonder round hillock..whereon an enemy might stell such a battery of cannon as would make ye glad to beat a chamade within forty-eight hours. 1901G. Douglas Ho. Green Shutters 7 On the slope the horses were..forced to stell themselves back against the heavy propulsion of the carts behind.
b. To fix (one's eyes). Also pass. and intr. of the eyes: To have a fixed stare, to set rigidly.
c1817Hogg Tales & Sk. IV. 57 John's eyes stelled in his head. 1888A. Wardrop Poems & Sk. 201 Dinna stell yer een sae, but jest sit doon there. 1890Blackw. Mag. Sept. 325 He tell't us aboot the deid man wi the glowerin' e'en—they were stell't in his heed.
3. To portray, delineate. Obs. exc. arch.
1598R. Haydocke tr. Lomazzo i. 16 Before you begin to Stell, delineat and tricke out the proportion of a man [It. prima che delinei, e disegni un' huomo], you ought to know his true quantity and stature. c1600Shakes. Sonn. xxiv, Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath steeld [sic; rime held] Thy beauties forme in table of my heart. 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes Ded., Rough drawn, and unproportionably stell'd, though it be, I here present it. 1880Bridges Portr. Grandfather Poems (1912) 390 If truly A painter had stell'd thee there, with thy lips ready to speak.
▪ IX. stell
obs. f. steal, steel, still. |