staddle

IPA: stˈædʌɫ

(archaic) A prop or support; a staff, crutch.
The lower part or supporting frame of a stack, a stack-stand.
Any supporting framework or base.
A small tree; sapling.
(agriculture) One of the separate plots into which a cock of hay is shaken out for the purpose of drying.

Examples of "staddle" in Sentences

Then, at the refuge, I saw a snowy owl perched on a hay staddle in the salt marsh.
Run, Thanel, and cut a staddle, for Go, Nathaniel, and cut a _sapling_, to make a lever on.
But we will look for them here, and the staddle stone might be a summer project with the hypertufa.
Maybe now people will spell hay staddle correctly despite Microsoft's spellchecker's insistence that there's no such word.
However, I starts for the staddle; and he kind'a growled, and wiggled his short tail, and seemed to be tickled to think I was a comin 'towards him.
And two fabulous snowy owls, one distant perched on a hay staddle in the marsh on Plum Island and one up close and personal in the Salisbury Beach campground.
Atwixt me and him, there was a small black oak staddle, and thinks I to myself, if I can git to that, I can hold my gun steady 'nough to shoot him; but then I was afeard I shouldn't kill him; and if I didn't he'd kill me.
As quick as I got up to the staddle, I cocked my piece, and aimed right at his brisket, atwixt his fore legs, as near as I could, and fired -- and run; and never looked behind me, to see whether I'd killed my adversary or not, and put for the house as fast I could.