Applications of the idea of ‘recess’: e.g. horse-bay, the stall for a horse; sick-bay, part of the fore-part of a ship's main-deck, used as a…

A partition separating two stalls in a stable, cowshed, etc. (cf. traverse, n. 6). Hence: (chiefly Scottish) the stall itself (cf. traverse, n.…

A compartment or stall for a horse in a stable; (also) a vehicle, trailer, or railway carriage designed for transporting horses. Cf. horse-box, n. 1.

General use as a modifier (chiefly in sense 2), as in trevis board, trevis post, etc.

The post nearest to the manger in a stable. Now rare.

A closed carriage or vehicle for transporting horses by railway; an enclosure for a horse to be slung into or conveyed in a vessel.

Accommodation for stalling (horses). rare.

(a) a compartment in which a horse is placed to be fed; (b) in hot air feeding-box, an appliance for ‘feeding’ hot air to a stove.