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noun place for keeping supply

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Word Origin & History

"building where horses or cows are kept," early 13c., "building for domestic animals," from Old French estable "a stable, stall" (also applied to cowsheds and pigsties), from Latin stabulum "a stall, fold, aviary, etc." literally "a standing place," from stem of stare "to stand" (see stet).

Meaning "collection of horses belonging to one stable is attested from 1570s; transferred sense of "group of fighters under same management" is from 1897; that of "group of prostitutes working for the same employer" is from 1937.

Example Sentences for stables

"He did seem rather cut up about the stables," Austin admitted.

These stables had been a subject of controversy for some time.

The knaves led them from the stables, but fled without them.

Dixon was deep in thought, too, as he went back to his own stables.

Evidently this was an intimation to him to keep away from the stables.

At the house they parted and headed the fugitive toward the stables.

Stables and neat-houses were the perfection of cleanliness and airiness.

I suppose, sir, he was always in the stables in his father's time.

Horses whinnied in the stables, and colts dashed about the pastures.

He had no debts in Paris, nothing to pay, but for his stables and lodging.

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