A short stout post used for any purpose, such as the marking of a boundary.
Origin
From Middle English stulp, stulpe, from Old Norse stólpi, from Proto-Germanic *stulpô, from Proto-Indo-European *stel-. Cognate with Icelandic stólpi, Swedish stolpe, Danish stolpe.
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