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STABLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stabling mean? 

STABLING (noun)
  The noun STABLING has 1 sense:

1. accommodation for animals (especially for horses)play

  Familiarity information: STABLING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


STABLING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Accommodation for animals (especially for horses)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("stabling" is a kind of...):

accommodation (living quarters provided for public convenience)

Derivation:

stable (shelter in a stable)


 Context examples 


Dr. Livesey came late one afternoon to see the patient, took a bit of dinner from my mother, and went into the parlour to smoke a pipe until his horse should come down from the hamlet, for we had no stabling at the old Benbow.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)



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