stile - What does it mean?
'stile' hits on the web
You may have been searching for a specific social media @stile profile or the tag #stile
Definition of 'stile'English
Alternative forms
* (l)
Noun
( wikipedia)
( en-noun)
A set of steps surmounting a fence or wall, or a narrow gate or contrived passage through a fence or wall, which in either case allows people but not livestock to pass.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
- 'Twas very true what Greening said; for of a summer evening I would take the path that led up Weatherbeech Hill, behind the Manor; both because 'twas a walk that had a good prospect in itself, and also a sweet charm for me, namely, the hope of seeing Grace Maskew. And there I often sat upon the stile that ends the path and opens on the down, and watched the old half-ruined house below; and sometimes saw white-frocked Gracie walking on the terrace in the evening sun, and sometimes in returning passed her window near enough to wave a greeting.
A vertical component of a panel or frame, such as that of a door or window.
A pin set on the face of a dial, to cast a shadow; a style.
- (Moxon)
(obsolete) A mode of composition; a style.
* Bunyan
- May I not write in such a stile as this?
Related terms
* turnstile
Anagrams
*
*
*
*
*
----
Similar to 'stile'stole, settle, stale, style, sidle, saddle, stele, stelae, soodle, stoole, suttle, stolae, sutile, setule, sutle, stylee
|
