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

There is an old granary in the area, built on staddle stones.
It is built on sixteen staddle stones as an anti vermin measure.
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.
Bee hives were often set on top of staddle stones to keep out predators and provide dry and airy conditions.
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.