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Webster 1913 Edition


Stable stand

Sta′ble standˊ

(stăndˊ)
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(O.Eng. Law)
The position of a man who is found at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; – one of the four presumptions that a man intends stealing the king’s deer.
Wharton.