stack-garth north.
Also 6–9 staggarth; 9 dial. stagarth, etc.: see Eng. Dial. Dict.
[a. ON. stakkgarð-r: see stack n. and garth1.]
A stack-yard, rick-yard.
| 1293 Durham Chapter MSS., Le Stakgarth in villa nostra de Hemingburg. 1402–3 Durham Acc. Rolls. (Surtees) 182 In alloc Rectori de Hemmyngburgh pro le Stakgarth, 2s. 1470–71 Durham Chapter MSS. 643 Circa inclusionem de lez Stakgarthez de Billyngham [etc.]. 20 d. 1546 Yorks. Chantry Surv. (Surtees) 339 A stacke garthe, with a lee, iiijs. 1582 Durham Wills (Surtees) II. 45 In the staggarth, Sextene thraves of wheate. 1641 Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 39 Of these [grasse cockes] the little Staggarth had seaven. Ibid. 60. 1842 Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. III. 42 note, He may know every part of it, as a farmer knows the corners in his own stack-garth. 1891 Atkinson Moorland Par. (ed. 2) 357 Mighty loads of corn or hay as they are piled up in order to be taken..into the stack-garth. |