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STILE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An upright that is a member in a door or window frame
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("stile" is a kind of...):
upright; vertical (a vertical structural member as a post or stake)
Context examples:
On a stile in Hay Lane I saw a quiet little figure sitting by itself.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I was endeavouring to find some gap in the hedge, when I discovered one of the inhabitants in the next field, advancing towards the stile, of the same size with him whom I saw in the sea pursuing our boat.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Seeing a ray of hope in that last speech, Laurie threw himself down on the grass at her feet, leaned his arm on the lower step of the stile, and looked up at her with an expectant face.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The brow of the hill, where they remained, was a cheerful spot: Louisa returned; and Mary, finding a comfortable seat for herself on the step of a stile, was very well satisfied so long as the others all stood about her; but when Louisa drew Captain Wentworth away, to try for a gleaning of nuts in an adjoining hedge-row, and they were gone by degrees quite out of sight and sound, Mary was happy no longer; she quarrelled with her own seat, was sure Louisa had got a much better somewhere, and nothing could prevent her from going to look for a better also.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
In two minutes he rose from the stile: his face expressed pain when he tried to move.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I was struck with the utmost fear and astonishment, and ran to hide myself in the corn, whence I saw him at the top of the stile looking back into the next field on the right hand, and heard him call in a voice many degrees louder than a speaking-trumpet: but the noise was so high in the air, that at first I certainly thought it was thunder.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
"Pass, Janet," said he, making room for me to cross the stile: "go up home, and stay your weary little wandering feet at a friend's threshold."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I got over the stile without a word, and meant to leave him calmly.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I was just leaving the stile; yet, as the path was narrow, I sat still to let it go by.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
