Standings [noun]

"The water and the standings are so much better there," he said.

She fell to the ground, and rolled about under the standings.

The fronts of these standings were towards the passengers in the carriage-way.

Chests of Congou and Souchon and flasks of arrack are standings about.

There have been no wars since in which the Standings have not been represented.

I fought in the Philippines because it was the tradition of the Standings to fight.

The town knitters either work in their own homes or in shops with standings for perhaps as many as fifty frames.

The carriages were drawn up in the fields in a line with the stables or standings for the horses.

Many hundreds of standings were taken up by persons of quality and others.

Standings were usually made of bricks, and the Army requisitioned all the brick yards in the occupied area.