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staddlestone

staddlestone is the alternative form 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

Forms of staddlestone

pluralstaddlestones

Questions about staddlestone

What is staddlestone the alternative form of?
Staddlestone is the alternative form of staddle stone.

Words near staddlestone in the dictionary

  1. staddle
  2. staddle stone
  3. staddle stones
  4. staddled
  5. staddles
  6. staddlestone
  7. Staddlethorpe
  8. staddling
  9. Staddon
  10. Staddons
  11. stade

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