Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To lodge and feed (an animal) in a stall for the purpose of fattening.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To feed and fatten in a stall or stable, or on dry fodder.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To feed and fatten in a stall or on dry fodder.
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Examples
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In latitudes, however, in which it becomes necessary to stall-feed during several months of the year, barns are indispensable.
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They stall-feed very fat, no doubt; but though generally very good, I have never, in any part of the States, tasted beef equal to the best in England.
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray
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As a rule, a Swiss villager may keep on the _Allmende_ during the summer as many head of cattle as he is able to stall-feed during the winter.
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897
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It is a very uneven track of ground, abounding with swamps; here they turn in their fat cattle, or such as they intend to stall-feed, for their winter's provisions.
Letters from an American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Cr��vecoeur 1774
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