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stile

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 779, OED Evaluation: N/A

An arrangement of steps, rungs, or the like, contrived to allow passage over or through a fence to one person at a time, while forming a barrier to the passage of sheep or cattle.

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Interviewer: Oh my goodness. Speaker: Yeah, so that's why it took us a little longer at that time and then just another couple of fields and we'd just- and there was a stile at the back fence into the ah- the schoolyard, so you'd climb up over the stile and there you were. Interviewer: Explain what a stile is. Speaker: What a stile is. Interviewer: Yes. Yes. Speaker: Yes. Okay so you have the wire fence, and that's really awkward to climb over. So they would build ah wooden steps up one side and down the other. So- Interviewer: A stile. Speaker: Yeah.
An arrangement of steps, rungs, or the like, contrived to allow passage over or through a fence to one person at a time, while forming a barrier to the passage of sheep or cattle.