standel
(ˈstændəl)
Forms: 6 standill, 7 -dell, 8 -dal, -dall, 7–8 -dil, 7–8 standle, 7, 9 standel.
[? f. stand v. + -el1. In sense 1 perh. an alteration of staddle influenced by stand v. With sense 2 cf. MHG. stendel, early mod.G. standel.]
1. A young tree left standing for timber. (Cf. stander 8, standard n. 20 a.)
| 1543 Act 35 Hen. VIII, c. 17 §1 (1544) Dvj, There shalbe left standing..for euery acre of woode..xii. standilles or storers of oke..[or] of elme, ashe, or beche.., the same stathilles or storers to be of such standilles or storers, as haue been left there standyng at any the fellyng..in time past. 1602 Carew Cornwall i. 21 The statute Standles commonly called Hawketrees. 1708 in Lyon Chron. Finchampstead (1895) 271 Provided always that sufficient Trees be left for standalls according to the Statutes in that case made. 1725 Bradley's Fam. Dict., Heyres, young Timber⁓trees that are usually left for Standills in the felling of Coppices. 1762 in Jrnls. Ho. Comm. 13 Feb. 1792, 254/1 Leaving sufficient Standals or Stocks. 1793 W. H. Marshall W. Eng. (1796) II. 337 The purchaser to be allowed..a quarter of a perch, for each standle of the last cutting. 1884 Lease in W. Somerset Word-bk. s.v., All pollards and other trees, slips, saplings and standels. |
| fig. 1661 Fuller Worthies, Northumbld. (1662) 310 The Commissioners of this County..presenting no underwood, yea, no standels, but only tymber-oaks, men of great wealth. |
† 2. ?
= stander 5.
| 1596 Unton Inventories 2 Two standells, and one joyned stoole. |