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▪ I. stull, n.1 Obs. exc. dial.|stʌl|
[Cf. G. dial. stollen slice of bread.]
A great piece or hunch (of anything edible).
a1400–50Wars Alex. 4436 Þan as a Mare at a moghe ȝoure mawis ye fill,..Stuffis so your stomake with stullis & of wynes, Þat vnethis haldis, be ȝe hoo þe hide of ȝow hale! 1674Ray S. & E. Country Wds. 76* A Stull: a luncheon a great piece of bread, cheese or other Victuals, Ess[ex]. 1885Spilling Daisy Dimple 38 (E.D.D.) He kept taking great bites out of a thick stull of dirty-looking bread.
▪ II. stull, n.2 Mining.|stʌl|
[Perh. a. G. stollen (OHG. stollo, MHG. stolle) a support, prop. The word has been adopted in a different sense as stulm.]
A platform or framework of timber covered with boards to support workmen or to carry ore or rubbish; also, a framework of boards to protect miners from falling stones.
1778Pryce Min. Cornub. 150 Several of these pumps may be placed parallel upon different Stulls, Sallers, or Stages of the Mine. 1847Halliwell. 1860G. Harris in Athenæum (1861) 19 Jan. 83/1 And tin lay heap'd on stulls and level-plots. 1875J. H. Collins Metal Mining 43 More timber is required for the construction of platforms, upon which the men stand while at work, ‘stulls’ as they are called.
b. attrib. and Comb.
1874Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 51, 3,829 feet of stull-timber. 1881― Mining Gloss., Stull, Corn[wall]. A platform (stull-covering), laid on timbers (stull-pieces), braced across a working from side to side, to support workmen or to carry ore or waste. 1883Encycl. Brit. XVI. 453/1 Stull-pieces... Stull-covering.
▪ III. stull
obs. Sc. form of stool. |