stulln.1
/stʌl/ Obsolete exc. dialect.
A great piece or hunch (of anything edible).
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the world > food and drink > food > amounts of food > [noun] > slice or piece of foodstuff > thick or large
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cantle?a1500
a1400–50 Wars Alex. 4436 Þan as a Mare at a moghe ȝoure mawis ye fill,..Stuffis so your stomake with stullis & of wynes, Þat vnethis haldis, be ȝe hoo þe hide of ȝow hale!
1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 76* A Stull: a luncheon a great piece of bread, cheese or other Victuals, Ess[ex].
1885 J. Spilling Daisy Dimple 38 (E.D.D.) He kept taking great bites out of a thick stull of dirty-looking bread.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
stulln.2
/stʌl/ Mining.
A platform or framework of timber covered with boards to support workmen or to carry ore or rubbish; also, a framework of boards to protect miners from falling stones.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > platform
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sollar1778
stull1778
pit bank1786
pit brow1853
stage1883
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 150 Several of these pumps may be placed parallel upon different Stulls, Sallers, or Stages of the Mine.
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II
1860 G. Harris in Athenæum (1861) 19 Jan. 83/1 And tin lay heap'd on stulls and level-plots.
1874 J. H. Collins Princ. Metal Mining (1875) vii. 43 More timber is required for the construction of platforms, upon which the men stand while at work, ‘stulls’ as they are called.
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attributive and in other combinations.
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1874 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 51 3,829 feet of stull-timber.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 183 Stull, Corn[wall]. A platform (stull-covering), laid on timbers (stull-pieces), braced across a working from side to side, to support workmen or to carry ore or waste.
1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 453/1 Stull-pieces... Stull-covering.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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