Essex Stile (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Essex Stile

A ditch; a great part of Essex is low marshy ground, in which there are more ditches than stiles.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

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