stand v Cp OED ~ v 76 c stand to 'to toil without flagging' obs.
2 Phr stand off: to stand to one side; stand to: to work steadily.
M 68-23 They notice Uncle Sam standing off, rubbing his hands. P 245-82 When the fish was running we'd sometimes stand to the table for sixteen hours until we'd drop. 1987 POWELL 90 That summer a younger son, Lester, had stood to the splitting table and cut the throats of one thousand quintals of fish.
