What is "stode"

Usage examples of "stode".

Then on the next day we entered the river and landed at Stode, from which place we departed in a wagon, crossed the river, and travelled through many thick woods of oak to Hamburg.

As high as Woolwich, that had waited there, Few know how many months, for the subversion Of the Stode fleet.

Gawayn graythely hit byde3, and glent with no membre, Bot stode stylle as the ston, other a stubbe auther That ratheled is in roche grounde with rote3 a hundreth.