stillage
/ˈstɪlɪdʒ
/noun
A wooden rack or pallet for holding stored goods off the floor or separating goods in transit.The jobs in hand are to strim the fieldside banking, repair the timber stillages and repair the hole in the bankside path caused by vandalism, and level other bankside paths on the fieldside....
- The club have a working party on Parkers to restore the timber stillages on Saturday, March 20.
- He must have a cellar, racks for the beer [called stillage], and the manpower and commitment to properly set up the beer every night.
Origin
Late 16th century (originally denoting a stand for casks): apparently from Dutch stellagie 'scaffold', from stellen 'to place'.
Rhymes
- the Devil
- the devil can quote scripture for his purpose
- the devil finds work for idle hands to do
- the devil looks after his own
- the devil's dozen
- the devil's in the detail
- the devil's own ——
- the devil to pay
- the die is cast
- the Digest
- (the) dinkum oil
- the Directory
- the dirty end of the stick
- the dismals
- the dismal science
- the Dispersion
- the distaff side
- the Divine
- the Divinity
- the dizzy heights
- the dog's bollocks
- the dogs of war
- the Dolomites
- the Downs
- the dry heart