Also 7 steeling(e, stillinge, stylling, 8 stillen. See also STILLION. [Perh. corruptly a. Du. stelling stand, scaffold, f. stellen to place. Cf. STILLAGE.] A stand for a cask, a gantry.
1604. Ball. Coll. Oxf. Acc. (MS.), Item, to Golidge [a carpenter] for makinge stillings for beare, and other worke, vis id.
1665. in Halliwell, Acc. Collect. Bills, etc. (1852), 17. In the strong Beere Seller. A stylling.
1743. Lond. & Country Brewer, III. (ed. 2), 235. They roll and tumble the Barrel backwards and forwards up and down on a Stilling.
1827. Sir J. Barrington, Pers. Sk., II. 49. Very like a beer barrel on its stilling.
1875. Knight, Dict. Mech., Stilling. A stand for casks. A stillion.