vbl. sb. Also 6 staghynge. [f. STACK v. + -ING1.] The action or an act of STACK v. in various senses.
1531–2. Durham Househ. Bk. (Surtees), 128. Pro le stakkynge [of corn] ibidem, per 2 dies 16d. Ibid. (1532–3), 165. Operantibus in collectione et staghynge decimarum de Harton.
1591. Exch. Rolls Scot., XXII. 145. For mawing, winning, leiding, stacking, and howsing of the hay of the new medowis of Falkland.
1707. Mortimer, Husb. (1721), II. 66. The Prices of which, and the stacking up of Wood, Roots, stumps of Timber Trees, &c. I shall give you an Account of hereafter.
1805. R. W. Dickson, Pract. Agric., I. 46. Where thrashing machines, and the practice of stacking, are properly held in estimation, large barns are quite unnecessary.
1880. [A. J. Munby], Dorothy, 46.
| Milking, of course, I can do; and poultry and pigs, and the dairy; | |
| Reaping in harvest time; haymaking, stacking, an’ all. |
b. attrib. stacking-stage, -swivel (see quots.); stacking-elevator = STACKER sb.1 2.
1890. Univ. Exhib. Guide, June, 30/1. A *Stacking Elevator for straw, hay, sheaf corn, beans, &c., was shown.
1805. R. W. Dickson, Pract. Agric., II. 799. It may likewise be useful, in building large corn ricks, to have a *stacking stage, so contrived as to be capable of standing close to their sides.
1875. Knight, Dict. Mech., Stacking-stage, a scaffold used in building stacks. Ibid., Stacking-swivel, a swivel attached to the upper band of a breech-loading rifle or carbine, to enable stacks to be formed without attaching the bayonet or using the wiper.
