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noun a base or platform on which hay or corn is stacked
originFrom Middle English stathel, from Old English staþol (“foundation, base, support, position, site, estate”), from Proto-Germanic *staþulaz (“position, standing”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-, *sth₂- (“to stand”). Cognate with Middle Low German stadel (“barn”), German Stadel (“barn”), Old Danish stedel (“ground, croft”), Icelandic stöðull (“position”). More at stand.
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