stabling
Syllables: stab·ling
stabling is the present participle and gerund of stable.
Meaning of stable
Verb
stable (third-person singular simple present stables, present participle stabling, simple past and past participle stabled)
- To put or keep (an animal) in a stable.
- It is not difficult for the wealthy brewer or pluralist publican, while he takes his ease in his comfortable dwelling on the Lord’s Day, or rolls in his chariot to the house of prayer, to denounce the agitation in favour of Sunday-closing, while his weary barmen and barmaidens “work from early morn...1883 September 25, R. H. Lundie, “Licensed Victuallers and Sunday-Closing”, in Liverpool Daily Post, number 8807, published 26 September 1883, page 5, column 7
- To dwell in a stable.
- To park (a rail vehicle).
- S.R. Pacific No. 34010 Sidmouth leaves Wembley Central to stable the stock of its excursion from the S.R. at North Wembley; the train was run in connection with a Wembley football event on April 30, 1960.1960 July, Trains Illustrated, page 385, photo caption
Noun
stabling (countable and uncountable, plural stablings)
- A building, shed, or room for horses and cattle; a stable.
- 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.[1877], Anna Sewell, “Earlshall”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 101
- 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.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...
Forms of stabling
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Phrases with stabling
Questions about stabling
- What does stabling mean?
- Stabling means a building, shed, or room for horses and cattle; a stable.
- What is stabling the present participle and gerund of?
- Stabling is the present participle and gerund of stable.
- What part of speech is stabling?
- Stabling is a noun.
- What is the plural of stabling?
- The plural of stabling is stablings.
Words near stabling in the dictionary
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