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stile
1[ stahyl ]
noun
- a series of steps or rungs by means of which a person may pass over a wall or fence that remains a barrier to sheep or cattle.
- a turnstile.
stile
2[ stahyl ]
noun
- any of various upright members framing panels or the like, as in a system of paneling, a paneled door, window sash, or chest of drawers. Compare rail 1( def 8 ).
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Example Sentences
There was also a statement by a parent, Francis Stile, whose two daughters attended the school.
As there was a stile near, leading into a field, they all got over the stile, and thus passed the geese.
As she proceeded up the lane, she paused at the stile where she and Gilbert had held their last conversation.
Thinking it might be only kind to step into the clerk's, he crossed the stile and went in without ceremony by the open back-door.
After dinner we all went to the Church stile, and there eat and drank, and I was as merry as I could counterfeit myself to be.
He left some money when he went away, and one of the children saw him cross the stile into the next field.
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