Mining. [Perh. a. G. stollen (OHG. stollo, MHG. stolle) a support, prop. The word has been adopted in a different sense as STULM.] A platform or framework of timber covered with boards to support workmen or to carry ore or rubbish; also, a framework of boards to protect miners from falling stones.
1778. Pryce, Min. Cornub., 150. Several of these pumps may be placed parallel upon different Stulls, Sallers, or Stages of the Mine.
1847. Halliwell.
1860. G. Harris, Athenæum (1861), 19 Jan., 83/1. And tin lay heap’d on stulls and level-plots.
1875. J. H. Collins, Metal Mining, 43. More timber is required for the construction of platforms, upon which the men stand while at work, ‘stulls’ as they are called.
b. attrib. and Comb.
1874. Raymond, Statist. Mines & Mining, 51. 3,829 feet of stull-timber. Ibid. (1881), Mining Gloss., Stull, Corn[wall]. A platform (stull-covering), laid on timbers (stull-pieces), braced across a working from side to side, to support workmen or to carry ore or waste.
1883. Encycl. Brit., XVI. 453/1. Stull-pieces…. Stull-covering.
