Lexic.us

Definition of Staddle

1. Noun. A base or platform on which hay or corn is stacked.

Definition of Staddle

1. n. Anything which serves for support; a staff; a prop; a crutch; a cane.

2. v. t. To leave the staddles, or saplings, of, as a wood when it is cut.

Definition of Staddle

1. Noun. (archaic) A prop or support; a staff, crutch. ¹

2. Noun. The lower part or supporting frame of a stack, a stack-stand. ¹

3. Noun. Any supporting framework or base. ¹

4. Noun. A small tree; sapling. ¹

5. Noun. (context: agriculture) One of the separate plots into which a cock of hay is shaken out for the purpose of drying. ¹

6. Verb. To form staddles of hay. ¹

7. Verb. (forestry) to mark a sapling to be spared during a cut down of trees ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Staddle

1. a platform on which hay is stacked [n -S]

Medical Definition of Staddle

1. 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. 3. A row of dried or drying hay, etc. 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. Alternative forms: stadle. Origin: AS. Staool, sraoul, a foundation, firm seat; akin to E. Stand. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Staddle

Literary usage of Staddle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Dialect of Craven: In the West-Riding of the County of York by William Carr (1828)
"staddle, The bottom of a stack, or an impression made in the grass by the long continuance of hay upon it in wet weather. Also the marks or scars left by ..."

2. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, Connecticut Council, Council of Safety (Conn.)., James Hammond Trumbull, Charles Jeremy Hoadly (1881)
"rods, to a chestnut marked; thence N. 30 deg. west 20 rods, to Hosmer's lot; thence 6 rod the same point to a beach staddle marked ; thence west 38 deg. ..."

3. Special Acts & Resolves by Connecticut (1872)
"The purpose of this corporation shall be to establish and maintain a Sunday school in the staddle Hill school district, of the town of Middletown, ..."

4. Proceedings of the Worcester Society of Antiquity by Worcester Society of Antiquity (Mass.), Worcester Society of Antiquity (Mass (1882)
"... thence Extending to a Chestnut staddle thence to another Chesnut staddle ... to a Black oak staddle and from thence to a Chesnut staddle and from thence ..."

5. The Bay Path and Along the Way by Levi Badger Chase (1919)
"a Little White Oak by a Pine Stump then next the bottom of the Hill we marked a Pine staddle and Laid Stones upon a Rock and Just over the Brook we Marked ..."

6. The Bay Path and Along the Way by Levi Badger Chase (1919)
"a Little White Oak by a Pine Stump then next the bottom of the Hill we marked a Pine staddle and Laid Stones upon a Rock and Just over the Brook we Marked ..."

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