▪ I. stillage, n.1
(ˈstɪlɪdʒ)
Also 7 stilladge, 9 dial. stillige.
[app. a. Du. stellagie, stellaedsie (Kilian), now written stellazje, stellaadje, stellage, scaffold, stand, f. stellen to place + Fr. suffix -age: see -age.]
1. Brewing. A stand for casks. Cf. stilling n.1, stillion 1.
| 1596 Lanc. Wills (Chetham Soc.) III. 5 In y⊇ buttery..a rounde old table and ij stillages for bier. 1688 Holme Armoury iii. xx. (Roxb.) 248/1 A stilladge in sellers, on which barrells are sett. 1800 Trans. Soc. Arts XVIII. 337 And the tubs placed..upon a stillage, near to each other. 1883 Lancs. Brewer's Price List, Casks should be placed on stillage, bung downwards. 1889 W. Westall Birch Dene III. 28 In one corner several casks on stillages. |
2. In various industries, a stool or stand for keeping something from the ground. Now spec. a pallet, frame, or similar structure used for storage of goods. Also collect.
| 1875 Knight Dict. Mech., Stillage, a low stool to keep cloths off the floor of a bleachery. 1963 K. Hudson Industrial Archaeol. vii. 111 Old fittings and furnishings which might well remain in situ at old factories..include..wooden stillages. 1970 Cabinet Maker & Retail Furnisher 25 Sept. 629/1 Each stillage is 36 in × 24 in × 6 ft high, and provides storage for 150 headboards... Customers who take regular bulk deliveries are offered these stillages on loan. 1976 Listener 22 July, Stacking of components in wooden stillage instead of metal bins. |
▪ II. stillage, n.2 Chiefly U.S.
(ˈstɪlɪdʒ)
[f. still n.1 + -age.]
The residue remaining in a still after a fermentation, usu. of grain or molasses, and removal of the alcohol by distillation.
| 1940 Sun (Baltimore) 5 Apr. 11/7 The experiments..were designed to determine the value of distillers' dry rye grains and stillage as substitutes for other grains in feeding cattle for the market. 1945 Industr. & Engin. Chem. June 534/1 Distilleries processing molasses are frequently confronted with the problem of disposing of stillage. 1963 Agric. & Biol. Chem. XXVII. a19/2 (heading) Nutritional studies on the utilization of distiller's stillage. 1979 Nature 6 Dec. 551/1 The total output of stillage in Brazil is equivalent in biological oxygen demand to the untreated sewage produced by a city of 200 million inhabitants. |
▪ III. stillage, v. dial.
(ˈstɪlɪdʒ)
[f. stillage n.1]
trans. To place (a barrel of ale, etc.) on a stand ready for use.
| 1854 Brierley Tales & Sk. Lancs. Life (1866) II. 82 There was a barrel of ale ordered to be stillaged at the door of the Blue Elephant. |