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Noun

1. 1
   The position of a person found standing in the forest with a crossbow or longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; one of the four presumptions that a person intended to steal the king's deer. UK, obsolete, uncountable

   "I'll keep my stable-stand where I lodge my wife, I'll go in couples with her."

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"I'll keep my stable-stand where I lodge my wife, I'll go in couples with her."

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