STADDLE

n. v.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Anything which serves for support; a staff; a prop; a crutch; a cane. His weak steps governing And aged limbs on cypress stadle stout. Spenser.

2.
n.

The frame of a stack of hay or grain. [Eng.]

3.
n.

A row of dried or drying hay, etc. [Eng.]

4.
n.

A small tree of any kind, especially a forest tree.

5.
v.

To leave the staddles, or saplings, of, as a wood when it is cut. [R.] Tusser.

6.
v.

To form into staddles, as hay. [Eng.]


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