Definition of Stanyel

1. the kestrel [n -S] - See also: kestrel

Medical Definition of Stanyel

1. See Stannel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stanyel

stannoxanes
stannum
stannums
stannyl
stannylated
stannylene
stannylenes
stannylidene
stannylidenes
stannylium
stannyne
stanol
stanolone
stanols
stanozolol
stanyel (current term)
stanyels
stanza
stanzaed
stanzaic
stanzalike
stanzas
stanze
stanzes
stanzo
stanzoes
stanzos
stap
stap my vitals
stape

Literary usage of Stanyel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Exact History of the Battle of Floddon: in Verse.: Written about the Time by Robert Lambe (1809)
"The stanyel is the common stone-hawk, which inhabits rocks and old buildings, in the North called ..."

2. Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson (1911)
"Lucrece knife Kowe I Lucresse 105. staniel | stanyel Hanmer I 89. Jove. See note, III, iv, 71-72. 93. the numbers alter'd : the metre, the versification, ..."

3. The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859)
"These are reckoned hawks of note aud worth; but wo have also hawks of an inferior rank, The stanyel, the Ringtail, The Raven, the Buzzard, The Forked Kite, ..."

4. The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1915)
"The stanyel, the Ringtail, The Raven, the Buzzard, The Forked Kite, the Bald Buzzard, The Hen-driver, and others that I forbear to name. ..."

5. The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1904)
"These are reckoned hawks of note and worth ; but we have also hawks of an inferior rank, The stanyel, the Ringtail, The Raven, the Buzzard, The Forked Kite, ..."

6. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1856)
"Hanmer conjectured ' stanyel,' said to mean a ' kite'; and his 'conjecture has been received: there is, however, some reason to suspect that the words were ..."

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