Stile
[staɪl]
Definition
(noun.) an upright that is a member in a door or window frame.
Checker: Zelig--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A pin set on the face of a dial, to cast a shadow; a style. See Style.
(n.) Mode of composition. See Style.
(v. i.) A step, or set of steps, for ascending and descending, in passing a fence or wall.
(v. i.) One of the upright pieces in a frame; one of the primary members of a frame, into which the secondary members are mortised.
Editor: Margie
Definition
n. a step or set of steps for climbing over a wall or fence.
n. the pin of a dial.
Typist: Loretta
Examples
- He did not leave the stile, and I hardly liked to ask to go by. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Her resting-place was at a certain stile under a certain old thorn. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Near the second stile rose a clump of trees. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- This lane inclined up-hill all the way to Hay; having reached the middle, I sat down on a stile which led thence into a field. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- In two minutes he rose from the stile: his face expressed pain when he tried to move. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- When we came near the churchyard, we had to cross an embankment, and get over a stile near a sluice-gate. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- On a stile in Hay Lane I saw a quiet little figure sitting by itself. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It was impossible for me to climb this stile, because every step was six-feet high, and the upper stone about twenty. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- She was so absorbed over her employment that she did not hear me coming until I had stepped over the stile. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- And so you were waiting for your people when you sat on that stile? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- If the gentleman's servant would wheel along the paths, he could keep nigh us, and we could lift it over the stiles, and that. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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