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Definition of Stall-fed
1. Adjective. (of livestock) kept and fed in a stall in order to fatten for the market.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stall-fed
Literary usage of Stall-fed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"But most part I say, such as are aptest to love that are young and lusty, live
at ease, stall-fed, free from cares, like cattle in a rank pasture, ..."
2. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"But most part I say, such as are aptest to love that are young and lusty, live
at ease, stall-fed, free from cares, like cattle in a rank pasture, ..."
3. Early Indiana Trials and Sketches: Reminiscences by Oliver Hampton Smith (1858)
"I bought the finest qualities of stall-fed beef, and corn-fed hogs, for family
use, at a cent and a half per pound ; corn ten cents, wheat twenty-five cents ..."
4. Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, by John Gardner Wilkinson (1841)
"... determined respecting those which were to graze in the field, and those which
were to be stall-fed t, and attended at stated periods to give a report to ..."
5. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1905)
"But most part I say, such as are aptest to love that are young and lusty, live
at ease, stall-fed, free from cares, like cattle in a rank pasture, ..."
6. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1886)
"She should always be stall-fed, as in hay even the poisonous weeds lose the evil
properties by the desiccation of the volatile poisonous principle. ..."
7. A Second Series of the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians by John Gardner Wilkinson (1841)
"... determined respecting those which were to graze in the field, and those which
were to be stall-fed t, and attended at stated periods to give a report to ..."
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