staddle

English

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Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /stædəl/

Etymology

From Middle English stathel, from Old English staþol (“foundation, base, support, position, site, estate”), from Proto-Germanic *staþulaz (“position, standing”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-, *sth₂- (“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.

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ædəl

Noun

staddle (plural staddles)

  1. (archaic) A prop or support; a staff, crutch.
  2. The lower part or supporting frame of a stack, a stack-stand.
  3. Any supporting framework or base.
  4. A small tree; sapling.
  5. (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)

  1. To form staddles of hay.
  2. (forestry) to mark a sapling to be spared during a cut down of trees

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