In the Old English period the word referred to a river bank or the shore: the OED notes that ‘staithe’ in the sense of a landing-stage is ‘current only in districts where Scandinavian influence is strong’.
‘Standard’ was a word used in connection with wood management, especially in the phrase ‘coppicing with standards’, where the standards were the trees that the woodcutters left standing when the coppice had been felled: they were destined to be timber trees for eventual use in building projects.
A rack or frame which stood on four legs and held animal fodder. It can be compared with the fixed hecks inside farm-buildings which served the same purpose.
Statutes, or Statute-sessions, were fairs or gatherings during which servants were hired, and they are said to have had their origin in two early Elizabethan statutes.
A general term for several alloys of iron and carbon that have been produced artificially so as to have greater hardness and elasticity, making them more suitable for industrial purposes and the production of edge tools.
The owner of a house was often granted the right to place a ladder on ground which adjoined his property, so that he might carry out necessary repairs. This was originally referred to as a 'stee room' and then as ladder room as the use of dialect in official documents declined.
Historically this was predominantly a feminine suffix, as in spinster, but it was widely used in Yorkshire in occupational terms for both men and women.