staddle stone

English

Noun

staddle stone (plural staddle stones)

  2. One of the mushroom-shaped stones used as a support (a staddle) for a barn or granary. The shape prevents rats from climbing up to the barn.
    Alternative form: steddle stone
    Hypernyms: staddle, support, stone
    • 1983, Barry Cunliffe, chapter 6, in Danebury Hillfort, Stroud: Tempus:
      [I]solate the body of the building from the ground […] embodied in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century granaries, built on staddle stones, which still survive in many English farmyards.

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