stall-fed

[ stawl-fed ]

adjective

1. (of animals) confined to and fed in a stall, especially for fattening.

Word History and Origins

Origin of stall-fed¹

First recorded in 1545–55

Example Sentences

"Bloated pluralists," "Stall-fed dignitaries," etc., are the sort of phrases conspicuous.

From Project Gutenberg

In the northern districts they are stall-fed on the waste material of the beet-sugar and oil-works, and of the distilleries.

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A stall-fed ox commanded twenty-four shillings while his fellow brought up11 on grass was sold for sixteen shillings.

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There are few meadows and pastures, the cattle being stall-fed when not feeding on the mountains.

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I believe in heredity, and I say that most of my colleagues are only shaved labourers, stall-fed for three years.

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