or leystall, layston, subs. (old).—See quots.

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  1590.  SPENSER, The Fairie Queene, I. v. 53.

        Scarce could he footing find in that fowle way,
For many corses, like a great LAY-STALL,
Of murdred men, which therein strowed lay.

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  c. 1696.  B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. LEYSTALL, a Dunghill.

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  1725.  A New Canting Dictionary, s.v.

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  1785.  GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. LAYSTALL, a dunghill on which the soil brought from necessary houses is emptied. Idem, 3rd ed., s.v. LAYSTALL, a dunghill about London, on which the soil brought from necessary houses is emptied, or in more technical terms, where the old gold collected at weddings by the Tom turd man, is stored.

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