An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

STEIR, adj. Stout.
Priests Peblis.

Su. G starr, rigidus.

STEIT, pret.
V. [Stoit].

STEKILL, s.
1. A latch.
Peblis Play.
2. The trigger of a musket, S.

A. S. sticcel, Teut. stekel, aculeus.

To STELL, STEIL, STILE, v. a.
1. To place, to set.
Wallace.
2. To stell a gun, to take aim with it, Loth.
To stell to the horne, to put to the horn, to declare one a rebel.
Act Sed.

Belg. stell-en, Su. G. staell-a, to place.

Stell-fishing, s. Fishing with a stell-net, S.
Stat. Acc.

Stell-net, Still-net, s. A net stretched out by stakes into, and sometimes quite across, the channel of a river, S.
Stat. Acc.

STELL, STILL, STOLL, s.
1. A covert, a shelter, S. A.
Stat. Acc.
2. An inclosure for cattle, higher than a common fold, S. A.
J. Nicol.