dial. Also stadle, sted(d)le. [f. STADDLE sb. Cf. STATHEL v., to found, establish (Obs. after early ME.).]
† 1. trans. (See quots.) Obs.
1573. Tusser, Husb. (1878), 105. First see it well fenced er hewers begin, then see it well stadled, without and within. Ibid., marg. Stadling of woods.
1787. Grose, Prov. Gloss., To stadle a wood; i. e. in cutting a wood, to leave at certain distances a sufficient number of young plants to replenish it.
2. To stain, mark, leave an impression on.
1828. [Carr], Craven Gloss., s.v., A person’s face is said to be staddled with measles.
1866. Brogden, Prov. Lincs., 196. Don’t stedle the cloth…. How steddled my dress looks!
1892. M. C. F. Morris, Yorksh. Folk-talk, 377. Inferior ‘blue’ is said to go staddled upon the linen.
