[? var. of STILLING sb.1]
1. A stand for a cask; a gantry. Also, a stand or frame on which pottery is placed in the drying kiln (Knight).
1803. Ann. Reg., Chron., 396/2. Mr. Madden … had water and beer butts thrown flat from the stillions.
1839. Ure, Dict. Arts, 383. The casks are raised upon gawntrees or stillions.
1875. Knight, Dict. Mech., 2386. Stillion. A stand for casks. The rounds or cleansing vats of a brewery stand on stillions in a trough which conveys away the overflowing yeast.
2. (See quot. 1836.)
1825. Art of Brewing (ed. 2), 6. The beer … not suffered to remain in small quantities in the stillions or other utensils.
1836. Penny Cycl., V. 404/2. A trough or stillion to catch the yest.
1871. G. Scamell, Breweries & Maltings, xv. 74. The yeast finding its way the best way it can into the stillion beneath.
