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noun

(in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.

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As she proceeded up the lane, she paused at the stile where she and Gilbert had held their last conversation.
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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.
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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.
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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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