Now dial. Forms: 5 stedelyng, -ing, 9– staddling; also 9 staidlin, staddlen, stadelin, stadlin(g, steadlin, steddling, etc. (see Eng. Dial. Dict.). [f. STADDLE sb. + -ING1. OE. had staðolung, -ing, vbl. sb. f. staðolian STATHEL v.]
† 1. The starling or pier of a bridge. Obs. rare.
1461. in C. Welch, Tower Bridge (1894), 89. For fishing next the stadelynges.
1481. City Lond. Letter Bk. L lf. 163 b. By casting of ankers in the Goleis and Stadelynges vnder þe brygge.
1482. in C. Welch, Tower Bridge (1894), 89. Stadelinges and ground workys of the same brigge.
2. The materials used to form a foundation for a stack; the stand or foundation of a stack. Also (see quot. 1825).
a. 1700[?]. in Hodgson, Water Mellock (1883), 33 (E.D.D.). None shall grave any turves for stadeling.
1825. Brockett, N. C. Words, Staidlin, a part of a corn stack left standing.
1848. W. Barnes, Poems Rural Life (ed. 2), 390. Staddlen, Staddling, stuff to make a staddle.
1866. Brogden, Prov. Lincs., 194. Staddling, the bed or foundation upon which stacks of agricultural produce is placed.
