Staddle Definition

stădl

noun

A lower part or support; specif., the base or framework of a stack, as of hay.

Webster's New World

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

Wiktionary

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

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verb

To form staddles of hay.

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

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Other Word Forms of Staddle

Singular:

staddle

Plural:

staddles

From Middle English stathel, from Old English staþol (“foundation, base, support, position, site, estate"), from Proto-Germanic *staþulaz (“position, standing"), from Proto-Indo-European *stā-, *sth- (“to stand"). Cognate with Middle Low German stadel (“barn"), German Stadel (“ground, croft, stall, shed"), Old Danish stedel (“ground, croft"), Icelandic stöðull (“position"). More at stand.

From Wiktionary
Middle English stathel from Old English stathol stā- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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