Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place where refuse or rubbish is deposited; hence, a heap of rubbish or refuse. Also
laystow .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited.
- noun obsolete A place where milch cows are kept, or cattle on the way to market are lodged.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A place where
rubbish ,dung , etc., are laid or deposited. - noun obsolete A place where
milk -givingcows are kept, orcattle on the way tomarket are lodged.
Etymologies
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lay + stall
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Examples
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For > [Because of the] corses > bodies laystall > {Place where bodies are laid; dunghill, midden} 3 Of murdered men, who therein strewn lay,
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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All the misdemeanours and malpractices of the town, -- and they were happening every day and every night, -- were all reported to the Recorder; they were all, so to say, charged home upon the Recorder, and he was held responsible for them all; till his office was a perfect laystall and cesspool of all the scum and corruption of the town.
Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) Alexander Whyte 1878
fbharjo commented on the word laystall
Land where trash is thrown
March 26, 2009