'Stable stand' definitions:

Definition of 'Stable stand'

From: GCIDE

Stable stand \Sta"ble stand`\ (st[a^]nd`). (O.Eng. Law) The position of a man who is found at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a 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 man intends stealing the king's deer. --Wharton. [1913 Webster]