stable lad

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noun

a person who looks after the horses in a racing stable

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Words nearby stable lad

stable door, stable equation, stable fly, Stableford, stable isotope, stable lad, stableman, stablemate, stabler, stabling, stablish

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Example sentences from the Web for stable lad

At St. Barnabas Hospital, Pellerano was listed in stable condition with wounds to his chest and arm.
Shot Down During the NYPD Slowdown|Michael Daly|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
His lone stable was a girl from Newport News, Virginia, who had already escaped one nightmare.
The Navy ‘Hero’ Who Pimped an HIV-Positive Teen|M.L. Nestel|December 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The country, long viewed as stable, has recently been home to upheaval.
An African Dictatorship’s Friend in D.C.|Center for Public Integrity|November 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The areas that were once the most food stable flipped on their heads when Ebola arrived, and are now the least.
Liberia’s Ebola Famine|Abby Haglage, Nina Strochlic|November 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Unlike metals like iron, which rusts and corrodes dramatically, chromium remains stable after oxidation and subsequent burial.
Why Did It Take So Long For Complex Life To Evolve On Earth? Blame Oxygen.|Matthew R. Francis|November 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Adjoining the engine-house on the other side, is the stable, where five splendid horses are kept.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
Egypt was once a land of mystery; now, every lad, on leaving Eton, yachts it to the pyramids.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
The soldiers killed a young lad who tried to pass, or wounded him so severely that it is said that he died.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various
Yet the word is general and apparently unconnected with the house, as it was not a stable but a boarding-house.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
Again the unknown power smote the lad to the earth, which had become a raging sea.
A Lost Hero|Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward and Herbert D. Ward

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