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单词 home-stalled
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home-stalledadj.

Brit. /ˈhəʊmstɔːld/, U.S. /ˈhoʊmˌstɔld/, /ˈhoʊmˌstɑld/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: home n.1, stalled adj.
Etymology: < home n.1 + stalled adj., probably after homestall n.
1. poetic and literary. Residing at home or in domestic surroundings. Obsolete.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [adjective] > of or belonging to home > having home
home-stalled1793
1793 G. Butt Poems II. 175 And man, half left to form himself by art, To nature masquing habits may impart, That bid in home-stall'd man his force expire, And lend the marching Amazon his fire.
1815 C. Lamb Let. 25 Dec. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1978) III. 204 Our rosy-cheeked, homestalled divines.
2. Of livestock: stalled in or near the owner's house; domestic.
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1849 J. W. Tyndale Island of Sardinia II. iv. 165 Its dreary coldness..has been known to be so severe, that some of the ‘mannalite’ (home-stalled pigs and sheep) have been found frozen to death in the morning.
1907 C. C. Stopes Shakespeare's Warwickshire Contemporaries (new ed.) ii. 41 Sir Thomas's home-stalled deer.
1994 E. F. Campbell in M. D. Coogan et al. Script. & other Artifacts iii. 43 Holladay proposes Room 3 as a stall for a home-stalled calf.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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