staddle Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a base or platform on which hay or corn is stacked

WordNet

Stad"dle noun
Etymology
AS. stathol, srathul, a foundation, firm seat; akin to E. stand. *163. See Stand, v. i.
Definitions
  1. 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. The frame of a stack of hay or grain. Eng.
  3. A row of dried or drying hay, etc. Eng.
  4. A small tree of any kind, especially a forest tree. ✍ 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.
Stad"dle transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To leave the staddles, or saplings, of, as a wood when it is cut. R. Tusser.
  2. To form into staddles, as hay. Eng.

Webster 1913