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Definition of Laystall
1. n. A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited.
Definition of Laystall
1. Noun. (obsolete) A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) A place where milk-giving cows are kept, or cattle on the way to market are lodged. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Laystall
1. a place for depositing dung [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laystall
Literary usage of Laystall
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London: Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis by David Hughson (1805)
"... and Dowgate, shall be carried down to the laystall at Dowgate Dock; ...
Aldgate, Duke's Place, and Lime Street, to the laystall set out at Mile End ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1855)
"Jennies White aforesaid hath builded ij cottages in Chick-lane upon the laystall
ground there w"'in this viij yeares. Alexander Eliott, late of Smithfield, ..."
3. Some Account of the Parish of Saint Clement Danes (Westminster) Past and Present by John Diprose, John Baker Hopkins (1868)
"This laystall was never found legally to be a nuisance, till on information of
the inhabitants of houses recently built near thereto, the Justices of Peace ..."
4. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1840)
"The city of Paris, for the purpose of suppressing the laystall at Mont- faucon,
has within the last few years established a new one in the forest of Bandy ..."
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