单词 | livery stable |
释义 | livery stablen. A stable where horses are kept at livery (livery n. 7a), or (now historical) are let out for hire (with or without a carriage). Cf. livery and bait stable at livery and bait n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > stabling > stable horse-housec1175 stablec1250 guest-stable1471 livery stable1661 brush stable1835 livery1888 boarding-stable1903 run-in shed1946 stable block1977 1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) at Livery We call that a Livery stable, where strangers horses are admitted at an allowance of so much by the week, or by the day and night for Hay and Oats. 1705 London Gaz. No. 4182/4 Left at a Livery Stable,..a Chesnut Mare. 1784 tr. Mod. Atalantis 5 The sole study of the Chevalier was the sportsman's calendar, and his only school for eloquence was the livery stable. 1839 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 114 A fly..furnished us from a livery-stable. 1890 Times 30 Dec. 11/3 He went to a livery stable, and there, by the permission of the prisoner, a horse saddle and bridle were handed over to him. 1948 ‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair i. 10 Across the narrow lane, face to face in perpetual enmity, stood the local livery stable and the town's newest garage. 1998 D. Pool What Jane Austen ate & Charles Dickens Knew (new ed.) 122 Some people simply went to livery stables, where you could rent horses or have your own animals stabled. Compounds General attributive, esp. in livery-stable keeper. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > stabling > stable-keeper stable-keeperc1440 stabler1508 stall-keeper1591 livery-stable keeper1703 stabulist1826 liveryman1841 livery1986 1703 Eng. Lucian 10 He..then went down to drink with the Jew, the Owler, and his Pimp the Livery Stables-Man by Moor-fields. 1736 Rec. Colony Rhode Island (1859) IV. 527 Alexander Thorp, livery stable keeper, and Isaac Cusno, saddler. 1788 Times 23 Jan. 23/4 A new built Brick Dwelling-House with a compact Livery Stable Yard. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. ii. 5 A livery stable-yard in Duke Street. 1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset II. lii. 95 I should be so much obliged if I might be allowed to pay the livery-stable keeper's bill. 1920 C. Sandburg Smoke & Steel 223 Shimmying the fast shimmy to the Livery Stable Blues. 1999 T. May Victorian & Edwardian Horse Cabs 13 People who operated cabs often did so as part of some other equestrian business, such as that of livery-stable keeper, or jobmaster. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1661 |
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