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English
Etymology
From lay + stall.
Noun
laystall (plural laystalls)
- (now historical) A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited.
a. 1638 (date written), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Under-woods. Consisting of Divers Poems. (please specify the poem)”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. (Second Folio), London: Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC:the lay-stall Of putrid Aesh
2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head, published 2017, page 9:Nor was the atmosphere improved by the habit of storing the scavengers' scourings or street slop in giant mounds or laystalls along the north bank of the Thames and on the edge of the town.
- (obsolete) A place where milk-giving cows are kept, or cattle on the way to market are lodged.
Translations
A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited
- Bulgarian: бунище (bg) n (bunište)
- Japanese: 塵捨場 (ごみすてば, gomisuteba), 塵溜 (ごみため, gomitame), 掃溜 (はきだめ, hakidame), 塵塚 (ちりづか, chirizuka)
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