Brit. Guiana. [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. Boddam-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.
