stabling

• Hyphenation: stab‧ling

stabling

1. present participle and gerund of stable

stabling (countable and uncountable, plural stablings)

1. A building, shed, or room for horses and cattle; a stable.
   • [1877], Anna Sewell, “Earlshall”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 101:

     There was a very fine house and a great deal of stabling; we went into the yard through a stone gateway, and John asked for Mr. York.

   • 1897, Lord Ribblesdale [i.e., Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale], “Kennels and Stables”, in The Queen’s Hounds and Stag-Hunting Recollections […], London, New York, N.Y., Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], page 206:

     I forget how much stabling there is, but we always had a lot of horses there, twenty-five or thirty, and yet there always seemed to be plenty of room, and plenty of work for more.

• stabling siding

• BLASTing, batlings, blasting, tablings