staddle

English

Alternative forms

• stadle, stathel

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stædəl/

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English stathel, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English staþol (“foundation, base, support, position, site, estate”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *staþulaz (“position, standing”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-, *sth₂- (“to stand”). Cognate with Middle Low German stadel (“barn”), German Stadel (“ground, croft, stall, shed”), Old Danish stedel (“ground, croft”), Icelandic stöðull (“position”). More at stand.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ædəl

Noun

staddle (plural staddles)

1. (archaic) 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. (agriculture) One of the separate plots into which a cock of hay is shaken out for the purpose of drying.

Verb

1. To form staddles of hay.
2. (forestry) to mark a sapling to be spared during a cut down of trees

Translations

mark a tree to be spared

• French: baliver (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

See also

• staddle stone