Forms: 6 standill, 7 -dell, 8 -dal, -dall, 7–8 -dil, 7–8 standle, 7, 9 standel. [? f. STAND v. + -EL1. In sense 1 perh. an alteration of STADDLE influenced by STAND v. With sense 2 cf. MHG. stendel, early mod.G. standel.]
1. A young tree left standing for timber. (Cf. STANDER 8, STANDARD sb. 20 a.)
1543. Act 35 Hen. VIII., c. 17 § 1 (1544), Dvj. There shalbe left standing … for euery acre of woode. .xii. standilles or storers of oke … [or] of elme, ashe, or beche…, the same stathilles or storers to be of such standilles or storers, as haue been left there standyng at any the fellyng … in time past.
1602. Carew, Cornwall, I. 21. The statute Standles commonly called Hawketrees.
1708. in Lyon, Chron. Finchampstead (1895), 271. Provided always that sufficient Trees be left for standalls according to the Statutes in that case made.
1725. Bradley’s Fam. Dict., Heyres, young Timber-trees that are usually left for Standills in the felling of Coppices.
1762. in Jrnls. Ho. Comm., 13 Feb. 1792, 254/1. Leaving sufficient Standals or Stocks.
1793. W. H. Marshall, W. Eng. (1796), II. 337. The purchaser to be allowed … a quarter of a perch, for each standle of the last cutting.
1884. Lease, in W. Somerset Word-bk., s.v., All pollards and other trees, slips, saplings and standels.
fig. a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies, Northumbld. (1662), 310. The Commissioners of this County … presenting no underwood, yea, no standels, but only tymber-oaks, men of great wealth.
† 2. ? = STANDER 5.
1596. Unton Inventories, 2. Two standells, and one joyned stoole.
