verb

• (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To place in position; set up, fix, plant; prop, mount.
  "How he escaped a broken neck in that dreadful place no human being will ever ken. The sweat, he has told me, stood in cold drops upon his forehead; he scarcely was aware of the saddle in which he sat, and his eyes were stelled in his head so that he saw nothing but the sky ayont him."
• (transitive, obsolete) To portray; delineate; display.
  "To this well-painted piece is Lucrece come, To find a face where all distress is stelled."

noun

• (archaic) A place; station.
• (Scotland) A prop; a support, as for the feet in standing or climbing.
• (Scotland) A still.
  "Paint Scotland greetin owre her thrissle; Her mutchkin stowp as toom's a whissle; An' damn'd excisemen in a bussle, Seizin a stell, Triumphant crushin't like a mussel, Or limpet shell!"

name

• (informal) A diminutive of the female given name Stella.