staddle stone

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
    — [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.

词形变化

staddle stones plural
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