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plural standels
a young tree, especially one reserved when others are cut. quotations examples
It was ordered that twelve standels or storers per acre in coppices or underwoods of twenty-four years' growth or less should be excluded from felling, and twelve 'great trees' on every acre above twenty-four years' growth.
1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 221