staddle

A young tree; a tree left to grow when others are cut; standard.--Worcester.

Leave growing for staddles the likeliest and best,

Though seller and buyer despatched the rest.

In bushes, in hedge-row, in grove, and in wood,

This lesson observed, is needful and good.--Tusser, Husbandry.

At the edge of the woods a rude structure had been thrown up, of staddles interlaced with boughs.--Margaret, p. 274.