stood

(stʊd)
v.
Past tense and past participle of stand.

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is used (in a quasi-passive role) for standing in non-standard uses comparable to sat for sitting, such as:

My husband was stood on the opposite side of the pits—Cycling Weekly, 1993.

The origins of this use are obscure and probably dialectal.

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IN BRIEF: To have supported oneself on the feet in an upright position.

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so. — Theodore Parker (1810-1860)

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