stable

Forms

1.A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) ungulates, especially horses.
- There were stalls for fourteen horses in the squire's stables.
2.A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.
3.An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together.
4.All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.

1.To park (a rail vehicle).
- Great Western Railway has placed its Class 143 Pacer fleet into warm storage, with the majority stabled at Exeter.
- S.R. Pacific No. 34010 Sidmouth leaves Wembley Central to stable the stock of its excursion from the S.R. at North Wembley; the train was run in connection with a Wembley football event on April 30, 1960.
2.To put or keep (an animal) in a stable.
- "I hope your have been quite comfortable." ¶ "Never better stabled in my life," said Bree.
3.To dwell in a stable.

1.Relatively unchanging, steady, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed.
- He was in a stable relationship.
- His income of £10000 per month was stable for a healthy living.
- In this region of chance, […] where nothing ws stable.

Uncommon· #3120

From Middle English stable, borrowed from Anglo-Norman stable

From Latin stab(u)lum.