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stull.

A framework of timber covered with boards to support rubbish or to protect miners from falling stones.

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. A framework of timber covered with boards to support rubbish or to protect miners from falling stones.

    UK · dialectal
  2. Any timber prop to support a structure.

Where this word comes from

Related to German Stollen (“stull”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stullô (“support, post, beam”), but its route into English is uncertain. Perhaps borrowed from Middle High German stolle. Doublet of stollen. Compare also stum.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.