stile
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stile
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /staɪl/
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Etymology 1
<figure class="mw-default-size">[1]<figcaption>A stile (sense 1) over a stone wall</figcaption></figure>
From Middle English stile, style, stiȝele, from Old English stiġel (“stile, set of steps for getting over a fence”), from Proto-West Germanic *stigilu, from Proto-Germanic *stigilō (“entry, entrance, overpass, device for climbing, stile”), equivalent to sty (“to ascend, climb”) + -le. Cognate with Dutch stegel (“stirrup”), Low German Stegel (“stile”), German Stiegel (“stile”).
Noun
stile (plural stiles)
- 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. [ quotations ▼]
- A vertical component of a frame or panel, such as that of a door, window, or ladder.