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where a thousand-pound animal agrees, mostly, to be politely housed.
means A building where horses or other livestock are kept and fed, or — as an adjective — the quality of being steady, firmly fixed, and unlikely to topple or change.
from From Latin 'stabulum,' a standing-place or stall, which traces back to 'stare,' to stand — the same root that props up 'stand,' 'stable' (the steady kind), and 'establish.' A stable, then, is quite literally where things stand still: the noun for the horse-house and the adjective for steadiness are siblings, both descended from that ancient idea of staying put.
- smell signature
- ammonia and hay run any stable's air quality
- escape artists
- horses learn to open latches with their lips
- fire dread
- barn fires are stable-keepers' oldest recurring nightmare
- word root
- shares ancestry with 'stand' and 'stable' meaning steady
- vice fix
- bored horses crib-bite wood, weave, or pace stalls
mcguigan's stable — irish horse racing stable that produced multiple grand national winners including red rum in the 1970s
coolmore stud — irish thoroughbred breeding and racing stable founded 1975, has produced multiple epsom derby winners
godolphin racing — dubai-based horse racing stable founded 1992 by sheikh mohammed, operates globally with hundreds of racehorses