stabling

English

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: stab‧ling

Verb

stabling

  1. present participle and gerund of stable
    • 1956 October, “Recent Changes on the Tyneside Electrified Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 662:
      As these [diesel] trains have to be shedded under cover at night, four additional outdoor standage roads are being provided for stabling of electric rolling stock after inspection in the shed.

Noun

stabling (countable and uncountable, plural stablings)

  1. A building, shed, or room for horses and cattle; a stable.
    • [1877], Anna Sewell, “Earlshall”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 101:
      There was a very fine house and a great deal of stabling; we went into the yard through a stone gateway, and John asked for Mr. York.
    • 1897, Lord Ribblesdale [i.e., Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale], “Kennels and Stables”, in The Queen’s Hounds and Stag-Hunting Recollections […], London; New York, N.Y.; Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], page 206:
      I forget how much stabling there is, but we always had a lot of horses there, twenty-five or thirty, and yet there always seemed to be plenty of room, and plenty of work for more.

Translations

Anagrams

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.