stable-stand noun1 •(UK, no longer used) The position of a person found standing in the forest with a crossbow or longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; one of the four presumptions that a person intended to steal the king's deer.I'll keep my stable-stand where I lodge my wife, I'll go in couples with her. — 1623
