stell

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A place; station. archaic
  2. A stall; a fold for cattle.
  3. A prop; a support, as for the feet in standing or climbing. Scotland
  4. A still. Scotland
    — Paint Scotland greetin owre her thrissle; Her mutchkin stowp as toom's a whissle; An' damn'd excisemen in a bussle, Seizin a stell, Triumphant crushin't like a mussel, Or limpet shell!
动词 v.
  1. To place in position; set up, fix, plant; prop, mount. Scotland,UK,dialectal,transitive
    — How he escaped a broken neck in that dreadful place no human being will ever ken. The sweat, he has told me, stood in cold drops upon his forehead; he scarcely was aware of the saddle in which he sat, and his eyes were stelled in his head so that he saw nothing but the sky ayont him.
  2. To portray; delineate; display. obsolete,transitive
    — To this well-painted piece is Lucrece come, To find a face where all distress is stelled.

词形变化

stells present,singular,third-person stelling participle,present stelled participle,past stelled past stold participle,past stold past stells plural

词汇关系

相关词
stall

词源

词源 1
From Middle English stellen, from Old English stellan (“to give a place to, set, place”), from Proto-West Germanic *stalljan (“to put, position”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to place, put, post, stand”). Cognate with Dutch stellen (“to set, put”), dated Low German stellen (“to put, place, fix”), German stellen (“to set, place, provide”), Old English steall (“position, place”). More at stall.
词源 2
Alteration of stall, after the verb to stell.
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