I. ˈstēl noun
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Etymology: Middle English — more at steal
: handle , shaft ; especially : the wooden shaft body of an arrow
II. “ also ˈstēlē noun
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Etymology: New Latin, from Greek stēlē stela, boundary post or pillar — more at stela
: the usually cylindrical central portion of the axis of a vascular plant that consists of vascular tissue surrounded by a pericycle and often enclosing a central pith and that is in turn enclosed by cortex and in later life by a cork layer and other tissues of which all or part may be sloughed off with age — called also vascular cylinder ; see actinostele , dictyostele , eustele , meristele , polystele , protostele , siphonostele , solenostele