Crossword clues for staddle
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Staddle \Stad"dle\ (st[a^]d"d'l), n. [AS. sta[eth]ol, sta[eth]ul, a foundation, firm seat; akin to E. stand.
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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. The frame of a stack of hay or grain. [Eng.]
A row of dried or drying hay, etc. [Eng.]
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A small tree of any kind, especially a forest tree.
Note: In America, trees are called staddles from the time that they are three or four years old till they are six or eight inches in diameter, or more. This is also the sense in which the word is used by Bacon and Tusser.
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
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 which a cock#Etymology_2 of hay is shaken out for the purpose of drying. vb. 1 To form staddles of hay. 2 (context forestry English) to mark a sapling to be spared during a cut down of trees
WordNet
n. a base or platform on which hay or corn is stacked
Wikipedia
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.