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单词 laystall
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laystalln.

Brit. /ˈleɪstɔːl/, U.S. /ˈleɪˌstɔl/, /ˈleɪˌstɑl/
Forms: Also 1500s laye-, leystall(e, 1500s–1600s leistal, leystal, laystale, 1600s leastall, lestal(l, ? loystal.
Etymology: < lay v.1 + stall n.1; perhaps to be regarded as an altered form of laystow n.
1. A burial-place. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun]
buriels854
througheOE
burianOE
graveOE
lairc1000
lair-stowc1000
lich-restc1000
pitOE
grass-bedOE
buriness1175
earth housec1200
sepulchrec1200
tombc1300
lakec1320
buriala1325
monumenta1325
burying-place1382
resting placea1387
sepulturea1387
beda1400
earth-beda1400
longhousea1400
laystow1452
lying1480
delfa1500
worms' kitchen?a1500
bier1513
laystall1527
funeral?a1534
lay-bed1541
restall1557
cellarc1560
burying-grave1599
pit-hole1602
urn1607
cell1609
hearse1610
polyandrum1627
requietory1631
burial-place1633
mortuary1654
narrow cell1686
ground-sweat1699
sacred place1728
narrow house1792
plot1852
narrow bed1854
1527 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1857) I. 16 My bodye to be bured wtin the white freris of Chester..and thei to have for my laystall xiijs. iiijd.
1541 in T. Wright Churchwardens' Accts. Ludlow (1869) 5 Reseyved of mastere Foxe for mr wardens leystalle vjs. viijd.
2.
a. A place where refuse and dung is laid.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty place > [noun] > dunghill
mixenOE
dung heap?a1300
miskinc1300
muckhilla1325
dunghillc1330
muck-heapa1400
middena1425
modyngstretea1500
dung mixenc1500
laystowa1513
mixhill1552
muck midden1552
laystall1553
middenstead1583
layheap1624
dung pile1658
midden lair1692
thurrock1708
stercorary1759
midden stance1844
1553 in Surrey Archæol. Coll. (1869) 4 98 A pese of grownd to make a leystall for the soyle of the hole paryshe.
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Voiries d'vne ville, the laystall of a towne.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. v. sig. E7 Many corses, like a great Lay-stall, Of murdred men.
1610 Death Rauilliack in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 112 The house..to be utterly ruinated, and be converted into a common leastall.
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion To Rdr. sig. A The common Lay-stall of a Citie.
1702 London Gaz. No. 3825/4 The Ground called the Laystal at Mile-end.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. vi. 16/1 Five million quintals of Rags picked annually from the Laystall.
1881 Times 25 Aug. 7/3 It does not require a very old man to remember a universal reign of cesspools, open ditches, and public laystalls, even in our largest and best kept towns.
attributive.1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. iii. 35 The brickmakers all about London, do mix sea-coal-ashes, or laystal-stuff, as we call it, with their clay of which they make brick.
b. figurative.
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society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [noun] > corruption > corrupt place or person
laystall1629
1629 H. Burton Babel No Bethel 66 The Schoole and Laystall of all impure spirits.
a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods xxi. 8 in Wks. (1640) III There he was, Proud, false, and trecherous,..the lay-stall Of putrid flesh alive!
1644 J. Vicars Jehovah-jireh 152 Stage-playes..those most dirty and stinking sinks or lestalls of all kinde of abominations.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. iii. §99 191 The Whole was no better than a Laystall of Lyes.
3. ‘A place where milch cows are kept in London’ (Simmonds Dict. Trade 1858).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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