1. a thin sheet of material with letters or designs cut out, used to produce the letters or designs on a surface beneath by applying paint or ink through the holes

1. to mark or paint something using a stencil

Examples

• She used a stencil to paint letters on the wooden sign.
• The artist created the design by cutting shapes into a cardboard stencil.
• We stenciled our house number on the mailbox.
• The teacher gave each student a stencil to trace the alphabet.
• He stenciled a border pattern around the room.
• The plastic stencil made it easy to paint perfect circles.
• They stenciled the company logo on all the boxes.