Oh-oh another cattle gateThe gets harder, then even harder after this, no photo Be sure to go around the cow flops Then a little easier We walked past a bufone, a tunnel in the cliffs where you can hear the surf booming, very impressive Past the cows (no fences between us)And the bull (luckily he was behind a fence)Over another fence. This was harder than it looks.
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Since reading comments in your blog and seeing the ‘gates’ you were required to climb over, somewhere in the recesses of my mind, I kept trying to think of the word for the ‘cross over’. Was it ‘sty’ or ‘style’? I started searching and the word I was searching for was ‘stile’.
A ‘stile’ is a structure that is used to provide an individual passage through or over a fence via steps, ladders, or narrow gaps, while preventing livestock passage. These structures are invaluable time- saving tools for humans while providing protection from the animals on the other side.
Also, there was some nagging memory about a ‘crooked man’ and this is what I was vaguely remembering.
“There was a crooked man,” By Mother Goose
There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile,
He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile;
He bought a crooked cat which caught a crooked mouse,
And they all lived together in a little crooked house.
Source: The Dorling Kindersley Book of Nursery Rhymes (2000)
So glad you thought of that word, Mom. We knew there was one but couldn’t think of it. I do remember that nursery rhyme.I just looked up the word for stile in Spanish on Google translate and got escalera para pasar una cerca which means “stair to pass a fence”. Maybe that means they don’t have a word for it in Spanish.
Since reading comments in your blog and seeing the ‘gates’ you were required to climb over, somewhere in the recesses of my mind, I kept trying to think of the word for the ‘cross over’. Was it ‘sty’ or ‘style’? I started searching and the word I was searching for was ‘stile’.
A ‘stile’ is a structure that is used to provide an individual passage through or over a fence via steps, ladders, or narrow gaps, while preventing livestock passage. These structures are invaluable time- saving tools for humans while providing protection from the animals on the other side.
Also, there was some nagging memory about a ‘crooked man’ and this is what I was vaguely remembering.
“There was a crooked man,” By Mother Goose
There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile,
He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile;
He bought a crooked cat which caught a crooked mouse,
And they all lived together in a little crooked house.
Source: The Dorling Kindersley Book of Nursery Rhymes (2000)
NOW, you know the ‘rest of the story’.
Mom
So glad you thought of that word, Mom. We knew there was one but couldn’t think of it. I do remember that nursery rhyme.I just looked up the word for stile in Spanish on Google translate and got escalera para pasar una cerca which means “stair to pass a fence”. Maybe that means they don’t have a word for it in Spanish.
The stiles in Austria either have steps up and down or are turnstiles (a rather descriptive word).
I would have much preferred turnstiles on those moors.