standel

plural standels

1. a young tree, especially one reserved when others are cut.

   It was ordered that twelve standels or storers per acre in coppices or underwoods of twenty-four years' growth or less should be excluded from felling, and twelve 'great trees' on every acre above twenty-four years' growth.

   1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 221