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/stʌɪl/, U.S. /staɪl/ a. An arrangement of steps, rungs, or the like, contrived to allow passage over or through a fence to one person at a time, while forming a barrier to the passage of sheep or cattle. Cf. turnstile n.church, kirk stile: see the first element.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > stile
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c779 Grant by Offa in Birch Cartul. Sax. I. 326 Of þam seaðe in þa ealdan stihle.
a900 Wærferth tr. Gregory's Dial. 24 Hi þa becomon to þære stigole, þær se þeof oferstah in ðone wyrttun.
1304 in Catal. Anc. Deeds (1894) II. 390 [Land called] Stothamstighele.
c1386 G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale 384 Right as they wolde han troden ouer a stile An oold man and a poure with hem mette.
1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1558) viii. Prol. 1 Halfe within and half ouer the stile.
c1460 Oseney Reg. 116 Sauyng to þe same Roger and to his heyres A pathe þorowgh þe middull of þe same close fro þe stile of þe forsaide church.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur i. iii–v. 41 So whan he cam to the chircheyard sir Arthur aliȝt & tayed his hors to the style.
1536 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) Payd..for makyng off a stele & a gate.
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 44v Saue step for a stile, of the crotch of the bough.
1601 in Court Leet Rec. Manch. (1885) II. 168 Robert Langley shall..sett two steeles..in the syde of Asheley ffields.
1661 Reg. Great Seal Scotl. 19/1 Going downe ane march balk betwixt Ernslaw and Swyntoun~mylne style till you come to the old trouch of Leit.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. i. 8 There was a Stile to pass from this Field into the next.
1763 I. Bickerstaff Love in Village i. ix, Scene ix A field with a stile.
1827 Hone's Every-day Bk. II. 905 Stiles and fieldpaths are vanishing everywhere.
1847 G. P. R. James Convict iv They soon reached the wall, over which they passed by a stone style.
1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate I. iii. 83 Getting over stiles and through gates.
1898 J. Paton Castlebraes 28 I..set my foot upon a style to step over into the public roadway.
b. In figurative phrases.
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a1352 L. Minot Poems i. 88 All þai stumbilde at þat stile.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. E To helpe a dogge ouer a style.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. ix. sig. Liiv Ye wolde be ouer the style, or ye come at it.
1575 Abp. M. Parker Let. 18 Feb. in Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 472 What is meant, but to go over the stile where it is lowest?
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes The retainer doth some seruice, that now and then..lendes a hande ouer a stile.
1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 112 He resolved to leape that stile, and take her to his wife.
1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 316 I would have it understood whether we confirm it as a law, or help a lame dog over a stile.
1675 V. Alsop Anti-Sozzo 302 He lifted him over the Style with this.
1692 Christ Exalted 105 Now to help him over this stile, he troubles the Bishop.
1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago III. vii. 197 ‘I can..help a lame dog over a stile’ (which was Mark's phrase for doing a generous thing).
1884 Manch. Examiner 20 May 5/1 It is a mere working arrangement; a lift over the stile at a crisis of some importance to the party.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
stile-board n.
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1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. xii. 155 The lichened stile-boards.
stile-post n.
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1743 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Oct. xxi. 126 By..spurring up a Gate, or Stile-Post, before they are quite damaged, he may [etc.].
stile-step n.
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1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 65 The stell is entered by stile-steps over the wall.
stile-way n.
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1751 R. Paltock Life Peter Wilkins I. xii. 108 Leaving only a Door-way on one Side, between two Stems of a Tree, which, dividing in the Trunk, at about two Feet from the Ground, grew from thence, for the rest of its Height, as if the Branches were a Couple of Trees a little distant from one another, which made a Sort of Stile-way to my Room.
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stile-boot n. (see quot. 1828).
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > dues or tolls for upkeep or maintenance > [noun] > wood claimed for stile
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1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Steel-boot, wood claimed of the Lord, by an owner of lands, within certain manors, for making a stile.
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/stʌɪl/, U.S. /staɪl/ Carpentry.
Each of the vertical bars of a wainscot, sash, panel door, or other wooden framing.
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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > a vertical support, post, or stake > in a framework
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1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. v. 83 You must leave some stuff to pare away smooth to the struck line, that the Stile (that is, the upright Quarter) may make a close Joynt with the Rail (that is the lower Quarter).
1710 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum II Stiles, the upright pieces which go from the bottom to the top in any Wainscot, are by the Workmen called Stiles.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. i. 47 When we look upon the wainscot of a room where the pannels are painted of a different colour from the stiles and mouldings.
1795 W. Felton Treat. Carriages II. 59 Two crests on the door styles.
1824 J. C. Loudon Green-house Compan. i. 15 In the case of Grecian architecture, the mouldings of any of the orders are readily applied to the styles, rails and bars.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 326 His turning machine..the legs or stiles L, the puppets A, B, the cheeks o, o.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 593 The face of the pulley-stile of every sash-frame ought to project about three-eighths of an inch beyond the edge of the brick-work.
1844 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 7 114/2 In constructing the walls of houses, in the first instance, ‘stiles’ or pieces of timber are inserted at convenient distances.
1846 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. 715 In a rectangular frame..the tenons are commonly made on the shorter pieces, called the rails, and the mortises on the longer or the styles.
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone II. x. 120 Making spars to keep for thatching, wall-crooks to drive into the cob, stiles for close sheep-hurdles, and handles for rakes.
1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic §709. 323 Nor should nails be driven into the styles of any door.
1883 M. P. Bale Saw-mills 336 Stiles, part of a window sash.
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