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A base or platform on which hay or corn is stacked
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staddle
Word definitions for staddle in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Staddle \Stad"dle\, v. t. To leave the staddles, or saplings, of, as a wood when it is cut. [R.] --Tusser. To form into staddles, as hay. [Eng.]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) A prop or support; a staff, crutch. 2 The lower part or supporting frame of a stack, a stack-stand. 3 Any supporting framework or base. 4 A small tree; sapling. 5 (context agriculture English) One of the separate plots into ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a base or platform on which hay or corn is stacked
Usage examples of staddle.
Olivia, in a fit of whimsy, had chosen to do her holiday shopping while in Staddle, with an eye to returning to London in time for Christmas.
As a result of the Dickensian excess the Yuletide always evoked in her soul, her baggage had evolved from a simple rucksack for easy cross-country hiking to a swarm of bulging valises and portmanteaus bought in Staddle High Street to contain her acquired freight of gifts.
Muttering about highwaymen, heroes, and men in general, she grabbed the reins, settled herself in the staddle, and turned the horse back.
Jethro Crawley sat on a mushroom-shaped staddle stone, painstakingly repairing a broken harness with strips of new leather.
He trudges deliberately round the straw-rick: there is something in the style of the man which exactly corresponds to the barn, and the straw, and the stone staddles, and the waggons.
Besides Bree itself, there was Staddle on the other side of the hill, Combe in a deep valley a little further eastward, and Archet on the edge of the Chetwood.
Most of the inhabitants of Bree and Staddle, and many even from Combe and Archet, were crowded in the road to see the travellers start.