stalder

Probably from Old Norse stallr (“a stall, pedestal, shelf”), from the same root as stall. Compare Danish stald (“a stall”).

stalder (plural stalders)

1. (UK, dialect) A wooden frame to set casks on.
   • 1672, “Rochester Inns”, in S. T. Aveling, editor, Archaeologia Cantiana, volume 21, published 1895, page 325:

     In the Cellars Stalders for to sett wine and beer upon.

   • 1740, “Extract from an Inventory of the Contents of the Manor House at Houghton Regis taken 23 May 1740 by John Smith and Ambrose Cooke”, in Rebecca Price, ‎Madeleine Masson, editor, The Compleat Cook or the Secrets of a Seventeenth-Century Housewife, published 2022:

     In the Cellars / (Further Cellar) / One hogshead, three beerstalders, one stoole. / (Hither Cellar) / Two hogsheads, one kilderkin, three firkins, three half anchors, one two gallon bottle, three drink stalders, two brass cocks. (Small beer cellar) One hogshead, one kilderkin, two tapp tubbs, about thirty dozen quart glass bottles and one dozen and a half pint bottles in severall places and lumber about the house. Valued at £4. 2s. 6d

   • (Can we date this quote?), Catharine Pullein, Rotherfield: the Story of Some Wealden Manors, published 1929, page 259:

     Allsoe: In: The: Brewhouse: / Three Furnaces One Brewvate one Powderingtubb Two keelers Six Smaller tubs one Jutt foure Stalders one paire of Potthangers and two peeles two forms and one old Table.

2. (UK, dialect) A pile of wood.

• “stalder”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Stadler, dartles