laystall

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noun

A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

nounlaystall (plural laystalls)

plural laystalls

  1. historicalA place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited.

    the lay-stall Of putrid Aesh

    a. 1638 (date written), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Under-woods. Consisting of Divers Poems. (please specify the poem)”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC
    1 more example

    Nor was the atmosphere improved by the habit of storing the scavengers' scourings or street slop in giant mounds or laystalls along the north bank of the Thames and on the edge of the town.

    2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head, published 2017, page 9
  2. obsoleteA place where milk-giving cows are kept, or cattle on the way to market are lodged.

Origin

Translations

Bulgarian бунище
  • бунище (bunište)A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited
Japanese 塵捨場, 塵溜
  • 塵捨場 (gomisuteba)A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited
  • 塵溜 (gomitame)A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited
  • 掃溜 (hakidame)A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited
  • 塵塚 (chirizuka)A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited
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APA

laystall. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/laystall

MLA

“laystall.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/laystall. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “laystall,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/laystall.

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