staddle

A base or support, especially a platform on which hay or straw is stacked.

To leave the staddles in, as a wood when it is cut.

To form into staddles, as hay.

A prop or support; a staff; a crutch.

The frame or support of a stack of hay or grain; a stack-stand.

A young or small tree left uncut when others are cut down.

In agriculture, one of the separate plots into which a cock of hay is shaken out for the purpose of drying.

To leave the staddles, or saplings, of, as a wood when it is cut.

To form into staddles, as hay.

Anything which serves for support; a staff; a prop; a crutch; a cane.