stabling
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Hyphenation: stab‧ling
Verb
[edit]stabling
- present participle and gerund of stable
- 1956 October, “Recent Changes on the Tyneside Electrified Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 662:
- As these [diesel] trains have to be shedded under cover at night, four additional outdoor standage roads are being provided for stabling of electric rolling stock after inspection in the shed.
Noun
[edit]stabling (countable and uncountable, plural stablings)
- A building, shed, or room for horses and cattle; a stable.
- [1877], 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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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]stabling c (singular definite stablingen, plural indefinite stablinger)
Declension
[edit]| common gender |
singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | stabling | stablingen | stablinger | stablingerne |
| genitive | stablings | stablingens | stablingers | stablingernes |