staddle (stadl)

[Also stadle, and more orig. stathel, Sc. staithle, contr. stail, stale, His weake steps governing And aged limbs on cypre e stadle stout. Spenser, F. Q., I. vi. 14. 2. The frame or support of a stack of hay or grain; a stack-stand. Oak looked under the staddles and found a fork. T. Hardy , Far from the Madding Crowd, xxxvi. pos posed side. Sometimes it is suspended from 3. A young or small tree left uncut when others posts temporarily set up. Stackhousia (stak-hou'si-ä), n. [NL. (Sir J. E. Smith, 1798), named after John Stack house , an English botanist (died 1819).] A genus of plants, ats, type of the order Stackhousieæ. It con- sists of about 20 species, all Australian except 2, which are natives, one of New Zealand, the other of the Philip- pine Islands. They are small herbs with a perennial her- baceous or woody rootstock, producing unbranched or slightly divided flower-bearing stems and alternate linear or spatulate leaves, which are entire and slightly fleshy or coriaceous. The flowers are white or yellow, borne in spikes terminating the branches, or in clusters along the main stem. Each flower consists of a small three-bracted calyx, an elongated often gamopetalous corolla with five included stamens, a thin disk, and a free ovary with from two to five styles or style-branches. Stackhousieæ (stak-hou-si'ē-ē), n. pl . [NL. (H. G. L. Reichenbach, 1828), Stackhousia + -eæ .] An order of plants, of the polypetalous series Discifloræ and cohort Celastrales . It is characterized by a hemispherical calyx-tube, having five imbricated lobes, five erect imbricated and often united petals, and as many alternate stamens. From the related orders Cel as trineæ and Rhamnaceæ it is especially dist in- guished by its lobed ovary, which is se ile, roundish, and from two to five-celled, and ripens from two to five inde- his cent globose or angled one-seeded carpels, which are smooth, reticulated, or broadly winged. It consists of the genus Stackhousia and the monotypic Australian ge- nus Mac greg or i a . Also Stackhousiaceæ . stacking-band (stak'ing-band), rope used in binding thatch or straw on a stack. stacking-belt (staking-belt), n. Same as stack- ing - band . stacking-stage (stak'ing-stāj), n. A scaffold or stage used in building stacks. stack-room (stak'röm), n. In libraries, a room devoted to stacks of book-shelves; a book-room. stack-stand (stak's tand), n . A basement of timber or masonry, sometimes of iron, raised on props and placed in a stack-yard, on which to build a stack. Its object is to keep the lower part of the stack dry, and exclude vermin. Such stands are n. A band or are cut down. It is common lie seene that those yoong staddles which we leaue standing at one & twentie yeeres fall are vsuallie at the next sale cut downe without any danger of the statute, and serue for fire bote, if it please the owner to burne them. W. Harrison , Descrip. of England, ii. 22. ( Holinshed .) At the edge of the woods a rude structure had been hastily thrown up, of staddles interlaced with boughs. S. Judd , Margaret, ii. 5. 4. In agri., one of the separate plots into which a cock of hay is shaken out for the purpose of drying. staddle (stad'l), v. t.; pret. and pp. staddled, ppr. staddling. [Also stadle; First see it well fenced, ere hewers begin, Then see it well stadled , without and within. Tu er, April's Husbandry. 2. To form into staddles, as hay. staddle-roof (stad'l-röf), n. The roof or cover- ing of a stack.