staddle stone

noun

One of the mushroom-shaped stones used as a support (a staddle) for a barn or granary. The shape prevents rats from climbing up to the barn.

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nounstaddle stone (plural staddle stones)

plural staddle stones

  1. One of the mushroom-shaped stones used as a support (a staddle) for a barn or granary. The shape prevents rats from climbing up to the barn.

    [I]solate the body of the building from the ground […] embodied in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century granaries, built on staddle stones, which still survive in many English farmyards.

    1983, Barry Cunliffe, chapter 6, in Danebury Hillfort, Stroud: Tempus
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