A vocabulary of landscape — a landscape of words
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stile
A structure built into or over a fence or wall that allows people to pass through while keeping livestock enclosed. Stiles come in many forms — stone steps, wooden ladder steps, squeeze gates, kissing gates — and are among the most quietly civilized features of the rural English and Welsh landscape.
Etymology
Old English stigel, from stīgan, to climb. Related to German steig, a path. The word means “the climbing place.”