stable
noun
a building for the lodging and feeding of horses, cattle, etc.
was stabling
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past progressiveof stable.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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GuÂgou grinned toothlessly from the doorway of the shed where he was stabling Clarissa, and then hobbled his way up to the garden.
From Madcap by George Gibbs
The situation was good though—without being too far from his former address—and there was stabling for a pair of horses.
From Australia Felix by Henry Handel Richardson
There was stabling, in which were kept a Victorian dogcart and a Georgian horse, used by the Councillor in his business.
From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
There were four hundred rooms, and thirteen grand staircases, to say nothing of the smaller ones, and there was stabling for twelve hundred horses.
From Francezka by Molly Elliot Seawell
So much of his history did Fred Organ give them while he was stabling his horse, before he could introduce them to his inheritance.
From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by Compton MacKenzie
