The Collaborative International Dictionary
Laystall \Lay"stall`\, n.
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A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited. [Obs.]
--B. Jonson.Smithfield was a laystall of all ordure and filth.
--Bacon. A place where milch cows are kept, or cattle on the way to market are lodged. [Obs.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited. 2 (context obsolete English) A place where milk-giving cows are kept, or cattle on the way to market are lodged.
Wikipedia
A laystall was a place where cattle going to market could be held, and by extension became a term for a place where detritus (particularly dung) was accumulated awaiting its removal.
The siting of laystalls was a contentious issue during the rebuilding of London after the fire of 1666, due to the noise and nuisance they created. Several streets in the UK bear the name Laystall Street, such as in Clerkenwell, London.
Usage examples of "laystall".
But, however this may be, he had been scared, and now saw lions where there were none, and was shocked and frightened, and night after night his courage had failed him and he had returned to his lodgings in Laystall Street without accomplishing his errand.
Fetter Lane with her towards Laystall Street, he thought of the wonderful goodness of God towards him in throwing in his way the very person of all others whom he was most glad to see, and whom, of all others, in spite of her living so near him, he might have never fallen in with but for a happy accident.
This date was a little delayed by the change of abode from Laystall Street to Blackfriars, but on the first day that it could be done it was done.
Refuse lined the street, stopping up the gutters, so that the odor reminded Praise-good of the laystalls outside the city limits.