A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) ungulates, especially horses.
There were stalls for fourteen horses in the squire's stables.
All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.
A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.
To put or keep (an animal) in a stable.
It is not difficult for the wealthy brewer or pluralist publican, while he takes his ease in his comfortable dwelling on the Lord’s Day, or rolls in his chariot to the house of prayer, to denounce the agitation in favour of Sunday-closing, while his weary barmen and barmaidens “work from early morn to midnight” to carpet his ample halls and stable his well-fed horses.
Relatively unchanging, steady, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed.
He was in a stable relationship.
From Middle English stable, borrowed from Anglo-Norman stable, from Latin stab(u)lum.
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To dwell in a stable.
To park (a rail vehicle).
S.R. Pacific No. 34010 Sidmouth leaves Wembley Central to stable the stock of its excursion from the S.R. at North Wembley; the train was run in connection with a Wembley football event on April 30, 1960.
Of software: established to be relatively free of bugs, as opposed to a beta version.
You should download the 1.9 version of that video editing software: it is the latest stable version. The newer beta version has some bugs.
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