dead stand

noun — 2 senses

noun

A standstill.

Then followed a signal check to walking pace at Holloway and finally a dead stand of 5¾ min. while we stolidly contemplated the beauties of Belle Isle (not quite the equal of those of the Isola Bella on Lake Maggiore, on which I was destined to set eyes a few weeks later).1960 October, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 623:

Business, Forestry A stand of trees that have died.

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