dial. [Corrupt form (? after scaffold) of stavel STADDLE sb.] = STADDLE sb.

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a. 1722.  Lisle, Husb. (1757), 182. This method is not to be used where the wheat is designed for a staffold.

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1764.  Museum Rust., II. 221. Your said correspondent justly recommends the reek staval, or staffold, a frame of wood for the mow, placed on stones.

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