staddle
Americannoun
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the lower part of a stack of hay or the like.
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a supporting frame for a stack, or a platform on which a stack is placed.
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any supporting framework or base.
noun
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a support or prop, esp a low flat-topped stone structure for supporting hay or corn stacks about two feet above ground level
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a supporting frame for such a stack
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the lower part of a hay or corn stack
Etymology
Origin of staddle
before 900; Middle English stathel, Old English stathol base, support, tree trunk; cognate with Old High German stadal barn, Old Norse stǫthull milking place; akin to stead
Example Sentences
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On the east side, in front of the house, a barn stands clear of the ground on staddle stones; and opposite is the cow byre.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
A moment later he smelled the lichen and cool moisture of one of the staddle stones.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Zoo riddèn house is such a caddle, That I would rather keep my staddle.
From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes
Vor he died while the häy russled grey On the staddle so leätely begun: Lik' the mown-grass a-dried by the day,— Aye! the zwath-flow'r's a-killed by the zun.
From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes
We therefore tied him to a staddle, and, after looking to our priming, we began to descend the height.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
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