astel

English

Etymology

From Middle English astelle (“piece of wood”), from Old French astele (“splinter, shaving”). Compare Latin astula, diminutive of assis (“board”).

Noun

astel (plural astels)

(mining, dialectal) An arch or ceiling of boards placed above the workers' heads in a mine.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “astel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Astle, ETLAs, Slate, Teals, Tesla, laste, lates, least, leats, salet, setal, slate, stale, steal, stela, taels, tales, teals, telas, tesla

Coatepec Nahuatl

Noun

astel

louse

Estonian

Noun

astel

adessive singular of aste

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