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homestall|ˈhəʊmstɔːl|
[OE. hámsteall homestead, f. hám home + steall position, place.]
†1. = homestead. Obs.
990in Kemble Cod. Dipl. III. 255 Ane hide on Cumtune on his hamstealle. 12..Ibid. IV. 133 Ðet he uðe Christe into Christes cheriche ðane homstal ðet he on set. c1277Charter in Cowell Interpr. (1701), De uno itinere..quod..ducit versus Homstale. 1598Kitchin Courts Leet (1675) 244 If a Cottage or a House is decayed, it is called a Home⁓stall. 1655New Eng. Hist. & Gen. Reg. (1865) XIX. 42 A Home-stall of 6 acres, with a dwelling house, barne..and orchard vppon it, {pstlg}35. 1701Providence (R.I.) Rec. (1893) IV. 237 John Whipple..shall have the home stall, or to say the Dwelling house. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. 4 A property was soon established in every man's house and home⁓stall; which seem to have been originally mere temporary huts or moveable cabins.
2. A farm-yard. dial.
1661Wood Life 5 Nov. (O.H.S.) I. 419 This house hath a fair homestall and six yard land belonging to it. 1677Plot Oxfordsh. 239 Manure..from the Home-stall, or from the Mixen in the field. 1735Somerville Chase iii. 154 Thro' ev'ry Homestall, and thro' ev'ry Yard, His Midnight walks, panting, forlorn, he flies. 1845Alb. Smith Fort. Scatterg. Fam. xi. (1887) 40 At one of the gates belonging to the homestall at the back of the house.
Hence homestalled a., having a homestall.
1815Lamb Lett. (1837) II. 18 Our rosycheeked, home⁓stalled divines. |