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Webster 1913 Edition
Staddle
Stad′dle
(stăd′d’l)
, Noun.
[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
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.
☞ 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
,Verb.
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.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Staddle
STADDLE
,Noun.
1.
Any thing which serves for support; a staff; a crutch; the frame or support of a stack of hay or grain. [In this sense not used in New England.]2.
In New England, a small tree of any kind, particularly a forest tree. In America, trees are called staddles from three or four years old till they are six or eight inches in diameter or more, but in this respect the word is indefinite. This is also the sense in which it is used by Bacon and Tusser.STADDLE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
staddle
staddle
English
Alternative forms
- stadle, stathel
Pronunciation
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