Usually means: Prepare for action or attack.
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  1. stand to: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stand-to, stand to: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. stand-to, stand-to, stand to: Collins English Dictionary
  4. stand-to: Wordnik
  5. stand-to, stand to: Wiktionary
  6. stand to: Dictionary.com
  7. stand-to, stand to: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (stand to)

verb:  To tolerate (something); to be able to withstand (something) stressful that will be ultimately beneficial.
verb:  To be on the verge of (something) happening, if certain conditions are met.
verb:  (archaic) To live up to; to insist upon or maintain.
noun:  Alternative form of stand-to [(military) A state of readiness assumed by ground troops at dawn and dusk in wartime.]
verb:  Alternative form of stand-to [(military) To assume such a state of readiness.]

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