dial. Forms: 3–9 stothe, 5 stuthe, stoth, 6 stoothe, stoith, (pl. stoithez, stoys), 9 stooth. [Either repr. OE. stuðu var. of studu STUD sb., or a. the equivalent ON. stoð.]

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  1.  A post, an upright lath; now only one of the upright battens in a lath-and-plaster wall. b. Comb. stooth-and-plaster; † stooth-stone, a stone post.

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1295.  Acc. Exch. K. R. m. 13. Et xxij s. in Trussurs, Girdelinges et Stothes emptis de eodem.

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1352–3.  Ely Sacr. Rolls (1907), II. 152. Pro cariagio de ixll sparris et cc stothys quercinis, 18 s. 6 d.

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1410–1.  in Hudson & Tingey, Rec. Norwich (1910), II. 58. [For two spars, 3] stothis [and other timber].

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1453.  Mem. Ripon (Surtees), III. 160. Et de 3d. sol. pro stuthes de ligno eidem operi.

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c. 1460.  Promp. Parv. (Winch. MS.), 440. S[t]oth of an hows, posticulus.

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1497–8.  in Fabric Rolls York Minster (Surtees), 90. Emendacione unius les stothe in zona pro cornu Sancti Willelmi. Ibid. (c. 1530), 355. Operantibus super reparacionem murorum stabuli circa soletrees et stoothes,… etc. 13 s. 2 d.

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1532–3.  Durham Househ. Bk. (Surtees), 173. Pro sarracione 13/4 rod in wyndbalks, stoys, pouynchys, 4 s. 8 d. Ibid. (1533–4), 270. Pro sarracione 1 rod in bords et stoythez, 2 s. 8 d.

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1552.  in Fabric Rolls York Minster (Surtees), 355. For setting in ij stothes.

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1566.  Leverton Churchw. Acc., in Archæologia, XLI. 364. ii altar stones for stothe stones.

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1893.  H. D. Rawnsley, in Westm. Gaz., 14 Nov., 2/1. He … showed me the stooth and plaister partition that had at one time formed his [Wordsworth’s] bedroom outer wall.

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  † 2.  A stud or knob. Obs.

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1397.  Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees), 445. Et vj stothes deaurat. ex donacione domini Ricardi de Castro Bernardi.

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1428.  in Engl. Misc. (Surtees), 1. For stuthes of xxxiij gyrdels of menged metaill … tin and lede.

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c. 1475[?].  Reg. Guild Corpus Chr. York (Surtees), 295. A blak gyrdill, ye pennaunt and ye buccle golde, with vij stuthes,… a blew girdill, pennaunt and ye bocle silver and gilt, with xxxij stothez.

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  † 3.  The list of a web of cloth. Obs.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 476/2. Stothe, of a clothe [Winch. stoth], forago.

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  Hence † Stoothed a., having studs.

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1467.  York Memo. Bk. (Surtees), I. 165. Ther shall no man … make or garre make any double stothed girdilles to sell … uppayn of iijs. iiijd.

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