stelling

Borrowed from Dutch stelling.

stelling (plural stellings)

1. A site or position (especially at shoreline or with reference to (former) Dutch colonies)
   • 1951, W. I. B. Crealock, Vagabonding Under Sail, Hastings House (New York), page 138:

     For a few pennies we could have a breakfast of pineapple, paw-paw, grapefruit and bananas, which could be bought a hundred yards from the stelling.

• gillnets, tellings, gill nets

From Middle Dutch stellinge. Equivalent to stellen +‎ -ing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɛ.lɪŋ/

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• Hyphenation: stel‧ling
• Rhymes: -ɛlɪŋ

stelling f (plural stellingen, diminutive stellinkje n)

1. position, configuration

   Stelling van Amsterdam — Defense line of Amsterdam

2. thesis, contention
3. sentence
4. theorem
5. scaffold

   Synonym: stellage

6. shelving unit

   Synonym: stellingskast

• Berbice Creole Dutch: stellingi
• → Indonesian: steling
• → Guyanese Creole English: stelling

From Old Norse stelling (“positioning, posturing", also "mast-step, mast hole”). Compare Icelandic stallur (“pedestal”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɛtliŋk/
• Rhymes: -ɛtliŋk

stelling f (genitive singular stellingar, nominative plural stellingar)

1. pose, stance, position, posture