Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A supporting timber or other prop in a mine.
  • noun A platform braced against the sides of a working area in a mine.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In mining, a heavy timber secured in an excavation, and especially in the stopes.
  • noun A luncheon; also, a large piece of bread, cheese, or other eatable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Prov. Eng. A framework of timber covered with boards to support rubbish; also, a framework of boards to protect miners from falling stones.

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  • noun UK, dialect A framework of timber covered with boards to support rubbish or to protect miners from falling stones.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Probably from German Stollen, from Middle High German stolle, prop, support, from Old High German stollo; see stel- in Indo-European roots.]

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Examples

  • "stull" system can, in inclined deposits, be further strengthened by building waste pillars against them, in which case the arrangement merges into the system of artificial pillars.

    Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration Herbert Hoover 1919

  • a small timber gang was struggling to hoist a huge log that they called a "stull" into position.

    The Copper Princess A Story of Lake Superior Mines Kirk Munroe 1890

  • Posted on May 18, 2010 at 5:56 pm oh man! one more season of angels, god & lucifer? you know how hard it is for a non-christian fan to keep up…have to keep googling stuff like the stull cemetary!

    Supernatural: Swan Song - Pink Raygun.com 2010

  • So stull that seems like obvious patterns to me isn't always, um, obvious at all to other folks.

    it's wonderful. everywhere. so white. matociquala 2008

  • When placing the concrete, the stull (if made of wood) is to be remove because the concrete mix assumes the bracing function (pressure) (See Fig. 1 and Fig. 2).

    3. General Construction of Formwork Peter Wehrmann 1993

  • A stull-batten is to be nailed on the formwork immediately above the ties to ensure that the projected beam width is kept when tieing the formwork.

    4. Types of Formwork Peter Wehrmann 1993

  • Where certain differences stull exist between the parties, it will be submitted to Government as such.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • Shoveling all this stull onto Central Courts had been all right when Mallorysport had had a population of less than five thousand and nothing else on the planet had had more than five hundred, but that time was ten years past.

    The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

  • Guys, this stull is powerful, easy, and fast to market … I've spent the night playing with a tech preview and I'm extremely impressed with the possibilities!

    Cloud Computing: Citrix, VMware, and Microsoft Resources - RSS 2010

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    Yahoo! Sports - Top News 2009

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