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staddle stones

staddle stones is the plural of staddle stone.

Meaning of staddle stone

Noun

staddle stone (plural staddle stones)

  1. One of the mushroom-shaped stones used as a support (a staddle) for a barn or granary. The shape prevents rats from climbing up to the barn.
    • [I]solate the body of the building from the ground […] embodied in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century granaries, built on staddle stones, which still survive in many English farmyards.1983, Barry Cunliffe, chapter 6, in Danebury Hillfort, Stroud: Tempus

Questions about staddle stones

What is staddle stones the plural of?
Staddle stones is the plural of staddle stone.

Words near staddle stones in the dictionary

  1. stad
  2. stadda
  3. staddas
  4. staddle
  5. staddle stone
  6. staddle stones
  7. staddled
  8. staddles
  9. staddlestone
  10. Staddlethorpe
  11. staddling

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