Dictionary

laystall en · NOUN

Etymology

From lay + stall.

Meanings

1. (historical) A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited.
   • Nor was the atmosphere improved by the habit of storing the scavengers' scourings or street slop in giant mounds or laystalls along the north bank of the Thames and on the edge of the town. 2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head, published 2017, page 9:
   • the lay-stall Of putrid Aesh a. 1638 (date written), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Under-woods. Consisting of Divers Poems. (please specify the poem)”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC:
2. (obsolete) A place where milk-giving cows are kept, or cattle on the way to market are lodged.

Forms

Translations (5)

bg бунище (A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited) · ja 塵捨場 (A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited) · ja 塵塚 (A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited) · ja 掃溜 (A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited) · ja 塵溜 (A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited)