Stell Definition

verb

(UK dialectal, Scotland) To place in position; set up, fix, plant; prop, mount.

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noun

(archaic) A place; station.

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A stall; a fold for cattle.

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(Scotland) A prop; a support, as for the feet in standing or climbing.

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Other Word Forms of Stell

Noun

Singular:
stell
Plural:
stells

Origin of Stell

  • From Middle English stellen, from Old English stellan (“to give a place to, set, place”), from Proto-Germanic *stallijaną (“to put, position”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to place, put, post, stand”). Cognate with Dutch stellen (“to set, put”), Low German stellen (“to put, place, fix”), German stellen (“to set, place, provide”), Old English steall (“position, place”). More at stall.

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  • Alteration of stall, after the verb stell.

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Stell Sentence Examples

  • In 1685 Simon van, der Stell, then governor of the Cape, led an expedition into Little Namaqualand and discovered the Koper Berg.

  • This fact and their reports of the immense herds of elephants which roamed the bush led Simon van der Stell, then governor at Cape Town, to despatch (1689) the ship " Noord " to Port Natal, with instructions to her commander to open up a trade in ivory and to acquire possession of the bay.

  • It dates from 1687, the site for the new settlement being chosen by the governor, Simon van der Stell.

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