- not recorded by the Dictionaries of the Scots Language after 1900, a stell was a place where nets were drawn over a river to catch salmon. The names of several specific stells, in the parish of Dyke and Moy, in Elgin, appear in the Statistical Account of Scotland (1791-99):
Eth stell, Elven stell, the Sheriff's stell, and the Easter and Wester stells of Culbin.
Other examples can be found in modern field-names like Oldstell Plantation near the River Tweed.