Stack-garth

north. Also 6–9 staggarth; 9 dial. stagarth, etc.: see Eng. Dial. Dict. [a. ON. stakkgarð-r: see STACK sb. and GARTH¹.] A stack-yard, rick-yard.

1293.  Durham Chapter MSS., Le Stakgarth in villa nostra de Hemingburg.

1402–3.  Durham Acc. Rolls. (Surtees), 182. In alloc Rectori de Hemmyngburgh pro le Stakgarth, 2s.

1470–1.  Durham Chapter MSS. 643. Circa inclusionem de lez Stakgarthez de Billyngham [etc.]. 20 d.

1546.  Yorks. Chantry Surv. (Surtees), 339. A stacke garthe, with a lee, iiij^s.

1582.  Durham Wills (Surtees), II. 45. In the staggarth, Sextene thraves of wheate.

1641.  Best, Farm. Bks. (Surtees), 39. Of these [grasse cockes] the little Staggarth had seaven. Ibid., 60.

1842.  Gen. P. Thompson, Exerc., III. 42, note. He may know every part of it, as a farmer knows the corners in his own stack-garth.

1891.  Atkinson, Moorland Par. (ed. 2), 357. Mighty loads of corn or hay as they are piled up in order to be taken … into the stack-garth.