Stable stand \Sta"ble stand`\ (st[a^]nd`). (O.Eng. Law)
The position of a man who is found at his standing in the
forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at
a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready
to slip; -- one of the four presumptions that a man intends
stealing the king's deer. --Wharton.
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