v. [f. STALL sb.1 + FEED v.]
1. trans. To feed (an animal) in a stall.
1763. Mills, Pract. Husb., III. 173. [The crop] will be sufficient to stall-feed four bullocks during the three winter months.
1861. Wynter, Soc. Bees, 143. We stall-feed milch cows in upper stories in London houses.
2. Of an animal: To undergo feeding or fattening in a stall.
1766. Complete Farmer, s.v. Turnep 7 Q 2/2. I have now two bullocks which are stall-feeding upon turnips.
Hence Stall-feeding vbl. sb.
1805. R. W. Dickson, Pract. Agric., II. 1045. This … is … less advantageous in the point of fattening than that of wholly confining them to the stalls, or what is usually termed stall-feeding.
1865. Trollope, Belton Est., iv. The building of a shed for winter stall-feeding.
