ابال الخَيْلِ

, and ↓ استبالها, [He, or it, made, or caused, the horses to stale: or] he stopped the horses for the purpose of [their] staling. (TA.) One says, (in threatening, PS,) لَنُبِيلَنَّ الخَيْلَ فِى عرَصَاتِكُمْ [We will assuredly make the horses to stale in your courts]. (S.) And it is said in a prov., أَحْمِرَةٌ ↓ بَالَ حِمَارٌ فَاسْتَبَالَ An ass staled, and caused some (other) asses to stale: applied to a case in which people help one another to do what is disagreeable. (Meyd.)