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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A roomy inclosed stall in which horses or cattle can be kept without tying.

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Examples

  • "'I was hatched in a box-stall,' says I." An 'just then -- you remember that four-horse load of machinery that come in after me?

    CHAPTER IV 2010

  • The rooms were simple, probably priests 'quarters; Dirk and Talia shared one, with Alberich in the next-and most interesting, a kind of rough box-stall hock-deep in fresh straw took up about half of each of the rooms.

    Sun In Glory Lackey, Mercedes 2003

  • When Hep got a flash of these two his goat kicked down the door of its box-stall and began cavorting all over the Western Hemisphere.

    You Should Worry Says John Henry Hugh McHugh

  • Right over he went, spilling some of the paint on himself, but the most of it, I am glad to say, went on the straw in the calf's box-stall.

    Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus Laura Lee Hope

  • Here, by order of the mine boss, carpenters had been at work since early morning making a roomy box-stall in place of two small ones, and providing it with a broad sling of strong canvas, which was hung from eye-bolts inserted in beams overhead.

    Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines Kirk Monroe

  • Bunker Blue, who came up every day from the dock to clean out the stall and brush Toby down, had left the door open, and, as the pony was not tied in his box-stall, he easily walked out.

    Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue and Their Shetland Pony Laura Lee Hope

  • As soon as a diagnosis is made the shoes must be removed, the toe shortened with the hoof pincers and rasp and the subject is put in a well bedded box-stall.

    Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix

  • He stood back from the box-stall where the calf was kept, so Sue could see how the little animal looked.

    Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus Laura Lee Hope

  • If the subject remains standing too long, the sling should be used and a well-bedded box-stall will contribute much to the comfort of the patient.

    Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix

  • Greatly excited, when he did not see his pet in the box-stall, Bunny ran back to the house.

    Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue and Their Shetland Pony Laura Lee Hope

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