Stable stand /(stănd`)/

Sta·ble stand

Stable stand
  1. 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. (O.Eng. Law)