Clumps of trees; also foundation-frames. Eng dial.

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1819.  I observed, near the place called Goshen settlement, where the fire had not made such ravages, that small staddles of hickory was thriftily growing.—B. Harding, ‘Tour through the Western Country,’ p. 9 (New London, Conn.).

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1823.  I observed where the fire had made such ravages, that small studdles [sic] of hickory were growing very thrifty.—Geo. W. Ogden, ‘Letters from the West,’ p. 48 (New Bedford).

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1848.  

        An’ old Wig doctrines, act’lly look, their occ’pants bein’ gone,
Lonesome ez staddles on a mash [marsh] without no hayricks on.
Lowell, ‘Biglow Papers,’ No. 9.    

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1850.  There was not, probably, a clean-bodied, fair-topped staddle within six miles, that Mysie had not taken particular note of.—S. Judd, ‘Richard Edney,’ p. 226–7.

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1856.  Zephaniah was about the homeliest looking staddle that ever sprouted from the old Varmount stock.—Weekly Oregonian, Aug. 2.

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1857.  Four little staddles with the bark off ain’t quilting frames, and the women know it.—J. G. Holland, ‘The Bay-Path,’ p. 241.

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