staller (staler)

[ 21. A standard-bearer. Tovy, a man of great wealth and authority, as being the king's staller (that is, standard-bearer), first founded this town. Fuller , Waltham Abbey, i. § 5. stall-fed (stal'fed), a. Fattened, as oxen, by feeding in a stable or on dry fodder. You shall have stall - fed doctors, crammed divines. B. Jonson, Staple of News, i. 2. stall-feed (stal'fēd), v. t. To feed and fatten in a stall or stable, or on dry fodder. If you were for the fair, you should be stall - fed , and want no weal. J. Bradford, Letters (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 112. stalling (sta'ling), n. [Verbal n. of stalll , v .] Stabling. Hire us some fair chamber for the night, And stalling for the horses. Tennyson, Geraint. stallinger (staʻlin-jer), n. [Formerly also stal lang langer (ML. stallangiarius ); with intrusive n, wharfinger , etc.] One who keeps a stall. [Local, Eng. or Scotch.] Vacancies among the Stallingers are filled up in like manner from the inhabitants of the town. Municip . Corp. Report , 1835, р. 1734. stalling-kent (staʻling-ken), n. A house for receiving stolen go goods. Dekker . [Old slang.] A Stawling - ken that is knowne of purpose to be trusty, yea and that in the night too, least they be notified and suspected to be scandalizing of the profe ion. Rowlands, Hist. Rogues, quoted in Ribton-Turner's Va[grants and Vagrancy, p. 585.