STADDLE

staddle

(noun) a base or platform on which hay or corn is stacked

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

staddle (plural staddles)

(archaic) A prop or support; a staff, crutch.

The lower part or supporting frame of a stack, a stack-stand.

Any supporting framework or base.

A small tree; sapling.

(agriculture) One of the separate plots into which a cock of hay is shaken out for the purpose of drying.

Verb

staddle (third-person singular simple present staddles, present participle staddling, simple past and past participle staddled)

To form staddles of hay.

(forestry) to mark a sapling to be spared during a cut down of trees

Source: Wiktionary

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Stad"dle, n. Etym: [AS. stathol, srathul, a foundation, firm seat; akin to E. stand. *163. See Stand, v. i.] [Formerly written stadle.]

1. Anything which serves for support; a staff; a prop; a crutch; a cane. His weak steps governing And aged limbs on cypress stadle stout. Spenser.

2. The frame of a stack of hay or grain. [Eng.]

3. A row of dried or drying hay, etc. [Eng.]

4. A small tree of any kind, especially a forest tree.

Note: In America, trees are called staddles from the time that they are three or four years old till they are six or eight inches in diameter, or more. This is also the sense in which the word is used by Bacon and Tusser.

Stad"dle, v. t.

1. To leave the staddles, or saplings, of, as a wood when it is cut. [R.] Tusser.

2. To form into staddles, as hay. [Eng.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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