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stay verb To lodge, reside, make one’s home. [OED2 stay v1 8b Scot and U.S.; EDD stay v 4 “to lodge, dwell, reside” obsolete; SND stey v “to dwell, reside, make one’s home"; DARE labels this usage “chiefly South, South Midland”]
1939 Hall Coll (Emerts Cove TN) There isn’t anyone [who] stays in Greenbrier Cove now except a few rangers and a few fire guards. There isn’t any citizens that lives there at all now. 1953 Hall Coll (Bryson City NC) I lived at the lower end of this county—was born and raised there—and stayed there up till nineteen forty-five. 1968 Miller Pigeon's Roost (March 7) The origin of the fire was not determined. Mrs. Pate, who stays alone, spent the night with her brother, Harris Street on Pigeon Roost. 2008 Rosie Hicks 1 They stayed down below us a little, not too far away.