Now only Sc. Forms: 6 stanchell, (stanshel, 7 stenchall, 8 -el, 9 dial. stanchil, staneshel), 7, 9 stanchel. [? a. OF. estanchele, estancele (dim. of estance prop), recorded as the name of an object, variously of wood or iron, used in some game.] = STANCHION sb.
1586. Reg. Privy Council Scot., IV. 95. [They] hes brokin doun and distroyit the haill corbellis, gestis and stanchellis of the rest of thair houssis.
1592. Greene, Def. Conny Catching, Wks. (Grosart), XI. 60. She nayled one eare fast to the windowe, and the other to the stanshel.
1658. in Campbell, Balmerino (1899), 410. Ane new cupill,… half-doore,… ease-boards, and thereon stenchalls.
1687. G. Clerke, Spot-dial, 13. For the Length of the Frame and Glass that must be as the Jaume of the Window and Stanchel will give leave.
1727. P. Walker, Life Cameron, Biog. Presbyt. (1827), I. 300. Hanging some of them at the Stenchels of Windows.
1827. W. Tennant, Papistry Storm’d, 53. Some grippet … Great iron stanchels in their wraith.
1900. ‘R. Guthrie,’ Kitty Fagan, 48. Meg was still at the door, half-leaning on the stanchel.
¶ ? Misused for: A large nail.
1832. G. Downes, Lett. Cont. Countries, I. 235. An old gate studded with stanchels.
