staddle

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/ˈstædəl/

noun

A prop or support; a staff, crutch.

OriginMiddle English stathel ← Old English staþol ← Proto-Germanic *staþulaz →
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Meanings

nounstaddle (plural staddles)

plural staddles · alternative stadle · alternative stathel · alternative steddle

  1. archaicA prop or support; a staff, crutch.
  2. The lower part or supporting frame of a stack, a stack-stand.

    "On other sides of the yard were wooden granaries on stone staddles, to which access was given by Flemish ladders, and a store-house several floors high."

    1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
  3. Any supporting framework or base.
  4. A small tree; sapling.
  5. agricultureOne of the separate plots into which a cock of hay is shaken out for the purpose of drying.
verbstaddle (third-person singular simple present staddles, present participle staddling, simple past and past participle staddled)

present singular third person staddles · participle present staddling · participle past staddled · past staddled · alternative stadle · alternative stathel · alternative steddle

  1. To form staddles of hay.
  2. businessTo mark a sapling to be spared during a selective cutting of trees.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*steh₂-
  2. Proto-Germanic*staþulaz“position, standing”
  3. Old Englishstaþol“foundation, base, support, position, site, estate”
  4. Middle Englishstathel
  5. Englishstaddle

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 (“barn”), Old Danish stedel (“ground, croft”), Icelandic stöðull (“position”). More at stand.

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Translations

French baliver
  • balivermark a tree to be spared

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with staddle

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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