stelled
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From stell (“to set, place, fix”).
Verb[edit]
stelled
- simple past and past participle of stell
Adjective[edit]
stelled (not comparable)
- (dialectal or obsolete) Firmly placed or fixed.
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:
- The sea , with such a storm as his bare head
In hell-black night endur'd , would have buoy'd up,
And quench'd the stelled fires
- (obsolete) Starry.