stull
A framework of timber covered with boards to support rubbish or to protect miners from falling stones.
Noun
- A framework of timber covered with boards to support rubbish or to protect miners from falling stones.
- Any timber prop to support a structure.
Origin
Related to German Stollen (“stull”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stullô (“support, post, beam”), but its route into English is uncertain. Perhaps borrowed from Middle High German stolle. Doublet of stollen. Compare also stum.