Also 7 stilladge, 9 dial. stillige. [app. a. Du. stellagie, stellaedsie (Kilian), now written stellazje, stellaadje, stellage, scaffold, stand, f. stellen to place + Fr. suffix -age: see -AGE.]
1. Brewing. A stand for casks. Cf. STILLING sb.1, STILLION 1.
1596. Lanc. Wills (Chetham Soc.), III. 5. In ye buttery … a rounde old table and ij stillages for bier.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. xx. (Roxb.), 248/1. A stilladge in sellers, on which barrells are sett.
1800. Trans. Soc. Arts, XVIII. 337. And the tubs placed … upon a stillage, near to each other.
1883. Lancs. Brewer’s Price List, Casks should be placed on stillage, bung downwards.
1889. W. Westall, Birch Dene, III. ii. 28. In one corner several casks on stillages.
2. In various industries, a stool or stand for keeping something from the ground.
1875. Knight, Dict. Mech., Stillage. A low stool to keep cloths off the floor of a bleachery.
