Stile

Definitions

1. A set of one or more steps surmounting a fence or wall, or a narrow gate or contrived passage through a fence or wall, which in either case allows people but not livestock to pass.
2. A vertical component of a frame or panel, such as that of a door, window, or ladder.

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Examples

“'Twas very true what Greening said; for of a summer evening I would take⟳ the path that led up Weatherbeech Hill, behind the Manor; both because 'twas a walk⟳ that had a good prospect in itself, and also a sweet charm for me, namely, the hope⟳ of seeing Grace Maskew. And there I often sat upon the stile that ends the path and opens on the down, and watched the old half-ruined house below; and sometimes saw⟳ white-frocked Gracie walking on the terrace in the evening sun, and sometimes in returning passed her window near enough to wave⟳ a greeting.”

“May I not write⟳ in such a ſtile as this? / In ſuch a method too, and yet not miſs / Mine end⟳, thy good? why may it not be done?”

“Every Printing-houſe is by the Cuſtom of Time out of mind⟳, called a Chappel; and all the Workmen that belong⟳ to it are Members of the Chappel: and the Oldeſt Freeman is the Father of the Chappel. I ſuppoſe the ſtile was originally conferred upon it by the courteſie of ſome great Churchman, or men, (doubtleſs when Chappels were in more veneration than of late years they have⟳ been here in England) who for the Books of Divinity that proceeded from a Printing-houſe, gave it the Reverend Title of Chappel.”

“Laſt of all fit a Triangular Iron⟳, whoſe angular point⟳ being laid to the Center of the Dyal Plane, one ſide muſt agree⟳ with the Subſtilar Line, and its other ſide with the Stilar Line; ſo is the Stile made. And this Stile you muſt erect perpendicularly over the Subſtilar Line on the Dyal Plane, and there fix⟳ it. Then is your Dyal finiſhed.”

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