STILE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stile mean? 

• STILE (noun)
  The noun STILE has 1 sense:

1. an upright that is a member in a door or window frame

  Familiarity information: STILE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STILE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An upright that is a member in a door or window frame

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("stile" is a kind of...):

upright; vertical (a vertical structural member as a post or stake)

 Context examples 

And so you were waiting for your people when you sat on that stile?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There was a stile to pass from this field into the next.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I thought it as well, said Holmes as we climbed the stile, that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or on some definite business.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Presently Jo said very soberly, as she sat down on the step of the stile, "Laurie, I want to tell you something."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

As soon as she could, she went after Mary, and having found, and walked back with her to their former station, by the stile, felt some comfort in their whole party being immediately afterwards collected, and once more in motion together.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He did not leave the stile, and I hardly liked to ask to go by.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was impossible for me to climb this stile, because every step was six-feet high, and the upper stone about twenty.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

They were in the grove now, close by the stile, and when the last words fell reluctantly from Jo's lips, Laurie dropped her hands and turned as if to go on, but for once in his life the fence was too much for him.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There’s the village, said the driver, pointing to a cluster of roofs some distance to the left; but if you want to get to the house, you’ll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by the footpath over the fields.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The walking party had crossed the lane, and were surmounting an opposite stile, and the Admiral was putting his horse in motion again, when Captain Wentworth cleared the hedge in a moment to say something to his sister.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)