A pen or enclosure for swine. / (figuratively) A messy, dirty or debauched place.

To place in, or as if in, a sty / To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place

(obsolete) To ascend, rise up, climb.

(Britain, dialectal) A ladder.

(medicine) An inflammation of the eyelid.

Enclosed in a sty.

present participle of sty

A small implement with a pointed end used for engraving and tracing.

(medicine) A bacterial infection in the eyelash or eyelid.

Archaic form of sty. (shelter for pigs)