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steddle stone

steddle stone 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 steddle stone

pluralsteddle stones

Questions about steddle stone

What is steddle stone the alternative form of?
Steddle stone is the alternative form of staddle stone.

Words near steddle stone in the dictionary

  1. stedde
  2. steddes
  3. steddied
  4. steddies
  5. steddle
  6. steddle stone
  7. steddle stones
  8. steddles
  9. stedds
  10. steddy
  11. steddying

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