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laystall|ˈleɪstɔːl|
Also 6 laye-, leystall(e, 6–7 lei-, leystal, laystale, 7 leastall, lestal(l, ? loystal.
[f. lay v. + stall; perh. to be regarded as an altered form of next.]
†1. A burial-place. Obs.
1527Lanc. Wills (Chetham Soc.) I. 16 My bodye to be bured wtin the white freris of Chester..and thei to have for my laystall xiijs. iiijd. 1541Ludlow Churchw. Acc. (Camden) 5 Reseyved of mastere Foxe for mr wardens leystalle vjs. viijd.
2. A place where refuse and dung is laid.
1553Surrey Ch. Goods (1869) 98 A pese of grownd to make a leystall for the soyle of the hole paryshe. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Voiries d'vne ville, the laystall of a towne. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. v. 53 Many corses, like a great lay-stall, Of murdred men. 1610Death Rauilliack in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 112 The house..to be utterly ruinated, and be converted into a common leastall. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. Pref. A, The common Lay-stall of a Citie. 1702Lond. Gaz. No. 3825/4 The Ground called the Laystal at Mile-end. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. (1858) 26 Five-million quintals of Rags picked annually from the Laystall. 1881Times 25 Aug. 7/3 It does not require a very old man to remember a universal reign of cesspools, open ditches, and public laystalls, even in our largest and best kept towns.
attrib.1745De Foe's Eng. Tradesm. iii. (1841) I. 20 The brickmakers all about London mix seacoal-ashes, or laystal⁓stuff, as we call it, with their clay, of which they make brick.
b. fig.
1629H. Burton Babel no Bethel 66 The Schoole and Laystall of all impure spirits. a1637B. Jonson Underwoods, Little Shrub Growing by, There he was, Proud, false, and trecherous,..the lay-stall Of putrid flesh alive! 1644Vicars God in Mount 152 Stage-playes..those most dirty and stinking sinks or lestalls of all kinde of abominations. a1734North Exam. i. iii. §99 (1740) 191 The Whole was no better than a Laystall of Lyes.
3. ‘A place where milch cows are kept in London’ (Simmonds Dict. Trade 1858). |