stull
[stuhl]
- a timber prop.
- a timber wedged in place between two walls of a stope as part of a protective covering or platform.
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Origin of stull
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But Stull said nothing and his sour, pasty visage turned sourer.
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And now Stull 275 knew him to be more than that—knew him to be treacherous.
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Twice Stull had spoken, and had been bidden to wait and to hold the wire.
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Stull lifted his dripping face of a circus clown from the basin.
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Brandes rose with an air almost jocular and smote Stull upon the back.
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stull
- mining a timber prop or platform in a stope
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Word Origin
C18: perhaps from German Stollen, from Old High German stollo
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