▪ I. stelling, n. Guyana.
(ˈstɛlɪŋ)
[a. Du. stelling scaffolding, landing-stage, f. stellen to place.]
A wooden pier or landing-stage.
| 1862 List Contrib. Br. Guiana to Lond. Exhib. in Veness El Dorado (1866) App. 139 Portion of the Fender Cap of the ferry steamer stelling, Demarara river. 1879 J. W. B. Whetham Roraima xiii. 135 The wharf—or stelling, as the wooden pier is called—presented an animated scene. 1898 H. Kirke 25 Yrs. Brit. Guiana 102 At 7 a.m. we cast off from the stelling, and were soon steaming down the muddy waters of the Demerara River. |
▪ II. stelling, vbl. n. Sc. and north.
(ˈstɛlɪŋ)
[f. stell v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of placing in position.
| 1560 Aberdeen Reg. (1844) I. 327 To desist and ceiss fra forther stelling and stenting of thair netts athort the water. |
2. A place of shelter; now = stell n.4 Also † stelling-place.
| 1513 Douglas æneis xi. x. 95 It is a stelling place and sovir harbry. 1828 Carr Craven Gloss., Stelling, a place where cattle retire to in hot weather. |