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Definition of stillage in English: stillagenoun ˈstɪlɪdʒˈstilij A wooden rack or pallet for holding stored goods off the floor or separating goods in transit. Example sentencesExamples - The jobs in hand are to strim the fieldside banking, repair the timber stillages and repair the hole in the bankside path caused by vandalism, and level other bankside paths on the fieldside.
- The club have a working party on Parkers to restore the timber stillages on Saturday, March 20.
- The stillages were not secured to each other or to the truck, and toppled onto the worker, causing two fractures to one of his ribs.
- He must have a cellar, racks for the beer [called stillage], and the manpower and commitment to properly set up the beer every night.
Origin Late 16th century (originally denoting a stand for casks): apparently from Dutch stellagie 'scaffold', from stellen 'to place'. Rhymes grillage, pillage, spillage, tillage, village Definition of stillage in US English: stillagenounˈstilij A wooden rack or pallet for holding stored goods off the floor or separating goods in transit. Example sentencesExamples - He must have a cellar, racks for the beer [called stillage], and the manpower and commitment to properly set up the beer every night.
- The stillages were not secured to each other or to the truck, and toppled onto the worker, causing two fractures to one of his ribs.
- The club have a working party on Parkers to restore the timber stillages on Saturday, March 20.
- The jobs in hand are to strim the fieldside banking, repair the timber stillages and repair the hole in the bankside path caused by vandalism, and level other bankside paths on the fieldside.
Origin Late 16th century (originally denoting a stand for casks): apparently from Dutch stellagie ‘scaffold’, from stellen ‘to place’. |