stabling

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  • Hyphenation: stab‧ling

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stabling

  1. present participle and gerund of stable

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stabling (countable and uncountable, plural stablings)

  1. A building, shed, or room for horses and cattle; a stable.
    • , 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.

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