staddles

Under the staddles was a long tethering chain, used to prevent the escape of errant horses.

Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

Under the staddles was a long tethering chain, used to prevent the escape of errant horses.

Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

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haystacks, hay staddles, history 2009

The current Nepalese government has been unflinching in it's support for it's large northern neighbour, helping the Chinese government to prevent protests near or on Mount Everest as a special Chinese Olympic Torch makes it's way to the summit of the famous peak - which staddles the border of Tibet and Nepal - as part of the Olympic Torch relay.

Over 100 Tibetan protestors arrested in Nepal 2008

Even as you may see in coppice woods; if you leave your staddles too thick, you shall never have clean underwood, but shrubs and bushes.

The Essays 2007

At that date the weakened portions of the original mediaeval structure were pulled down and cleared away, old jambs being carried off for rick-staddles, and the foliated timbers of the hall roof making themselves useful as fancy chairs in the summer-houses of rising inns.

The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

It wasn't the best o 'walking, for logs were thick, and the grape-vines tript me some; and I had to nod and squirl for the staddles and limbs.

Summerfield or, Life on a Farm Day Kellogg Lee

But not a second was to be lost; for the scream shook the staddles, and rung and rolled.

Summerfield or, Life on a Farm Day Kellogg Lee

I hoped that they would leave before daylight, without discovering me; but just as the sparrows on the roof were twittering a greeting to the dawn, as ill luck would have it, one of the men spied my coat, spread on staddles against the wall to dry.

Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Herbert Strang

Here he leant against one of the staddles, and gave himself up to patience.

The Mayor of Casterbridge 1887