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A long, thin handle (of rakes, axes, etc.) / (dialectal) One of the posts or uprights of a ladder. / One of the rungs on a ladder. / (botany, obsolete) The stem of a plant.

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stale

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Source Word

stale

IPA(Pronunciation)

/steɪl/

Noun

dialectal obsolete

A long, thin handle (of rakes, axes, etc.) / (dialectal) One of the posts or uprights of a ladder. / One of the rungs on a ladder. / (botany, obsolete) The stem of a plant.

Japanese Meaning

熊手や斧などの道具の長くて細い柄 / （方言）はしごの支柱の一部 / はしごの梯子の段または横木 / （植物学、旧用法）植物の茎

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Before painting, he sanded the stale of the garden rake until it was smooth.

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塗装する前に、彼は庭用熊手の柄を滑らかになるまでやすりで整えた。

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A long, thin handle (of rakes, axes, etc.)

In Case your Cask is a Butt,...have ready boiling...Water, which put in, and, with a long Stale and a little Birch fastened to its End, scrub the Bottom.

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(dialectal) One of the posts or uprights of a ladder.

Stales, the staves, or risings of a ladder, or the staves of a rack in a stable.

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One of the rungs on a ladder.

To begin then: not long before this paragraph was written, P fell into doze, and dreamt, he saw Jacob's ladder with one foot standing on the earth, the other reaching up into heaven. Dukes, Marquisses, and other Peers, fancy represented to him, as standing on the upper stales; on the middle ones, Knights and Baronets, and under them, a train of Esquires and Gentlemen, reaching to the bottom.

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