Obs. Forms: 5 stantyf, 7 stant(e)y. [Late ME. stantyf, ad. med.L. stantīvus standing erect, f. stant-em pr. pple. of stāre to stand: see -IVE.] Stanty hedge: a stake-and-rice fence.
1446. Crt. Roll Gt. Waltham Manor, Essex, 9 June. Thomas Gossyb appropriavit de regia via … unam peciam … super quam posuit unum stantyfhegge ad nocumentum.
1659. Gauden, Tears of Ch., IV. vii. 438. A setting up a stanty hedge, instead of good quick-set or a brick-wall, for the fense of Christs vineyard.
1664. Spelman, Gloss., s.v. Assis, Quoad sepem stantariam, nos … A stantey hedge, vocamus, quod non e surculis vivis, sed e perticis & viminibus componitur, absque fossa.
