A stable where horses are kept at livery, or are let out (with or without carriages) for hire. (Also livery and bait stable.)
1705. Lond. Gaz., No. 4182/4. Left at a Livery Stable…, a Chesnut Mare.
1714. Mandeville, Fab. Bees (1725), I. 95. Houses, in which women are hir’d as publickly as horses at a livery stable.
1839. Mrs. Carlyle, Lett., I. 114. A fly … furnished us from a livery-stable.
1840. Thackeray, Catherine, v. The livery-stable was hard by.
Comb. 1736. Rhode Island Col. Rec. (1859), IV. 527. Alexander Thorp, livery stable keeper, and Isaac Cusno, saddler.
1865. Dickens, Mut. Fr., I. ii. A livery stable-yard in Duke Street.
1867. Trollope, Chron. Barset, II. lii. 95. I should be so much obliged if I might be allowed to pay the livery-stable keeper’s bill.
