Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A base or support, especially a platform on which hay or straw is stacked.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A prop or support; a staff; a crutch.
- noun The frame or support of a stack of hay or grain; a stack-stand.
- noun A young or small tree left uncut when others are cut down.
- noun In agriculture, one of the separate plots into which a cock of hay is shaken out for the purpose of drying.
- To leave the staddles in, as a wood when it is cut.
- To form into staddles, as hay.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To leave the staddles, or saplings, of, as a wood when it is cut.
- transitive verb engraving To form into staddles, as hay.
- noun Anything which serves for support; a staff; a prop; a crutch; a cane.
- noun engraving The frame of a stack of hay or grain.
- noun engraving A row of dried or drying hay, etc.
- noun A small tree of any kind, especially a forest tree.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A
prop orsupport ; astaff ,crutch . - noun The lower part or supporting frame of a
stack , a stack-stand. - noun Any supporting
framework orbase . - noun A
small tree ;sapling . - noun agriculture One of the separate plots into which a
cock of hay is shaken out for the purpose of drying. - verb To form staddles of
hay . - verb forestry to mark a sapling to be spared during a cut down of trees
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a base or platform on which hay or corn is stacked
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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But we will look for them here, and the staddle stone might be a summer project with the hypertufa.
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And two fabulous snowy owls, one distant perched on a hay staddle in the marsh on Plum Island and one up close and personal in the Salisbury Beach campground.
Snowy Owl 2009
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Maybe now people will spell hay staddle correctly despite Microsoft's spellchecker's insistence that there's no such word.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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Then, at the refuge, I saw a snowy owl perched on a hay staddle in the salt marsh.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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Then, at the refuge, I saw a snowy owl perched on a hay staddle in the salt marsh.
Snowy Owl 2009
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Maybe now people will spell hay staddle correctly despite Microsoft's spellchecker's insistence that there's no such word.
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Run, Thanel, and cut a staddle, for Go, Nathaniel, and cut a _sapling_, to make a lever on.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham
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However, I starts for the staddle; and he kind'a growled, and wiggled his short tail, and seemed to be tickled to think I was a comin 'towards him.
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As quick as I got up to the staddle, I cocked my piece, and aimed right at his brisket, atwixt his fore legs, as near as I could, and fired -- and run; and never looked behind me, to see whether I'd killed my adversary or not, and put for the house as fast I could.
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Atwixt me and him, there was a small black oak staddle, and thinks I to myself, if I can git to that, I can hold my gun steady 'nough to shoot him; but then I was afeard I shouldn't kill him; and if I didn't he'd kill me.
qroqqa commented on the word staddle
It had no foundations; it stood two metres off the ground on a set of staddle stones.
—Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping
And at last I find out the name for an everyday object: those stone mushrooms barns sit on.
February 17, 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word staddle
Positively plinthy.
March 22, 2012
bilby commented on the word staddle
Compare stalwart.
December 15, 2018