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Stall   /stɔl/   Listen
Stall

noun
1.
A compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed.
2.
Small area set off by walls for special use.  Synonyms: booth, cubicle, kiosk.
3.
A booth where articles are displayed for sale.  Synonyms: sales booth, stand.
4.
A malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge.
5.
Seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater.
6.
Small individual study area in a library.  Synonyms: carrel, carrell, cubicle.
7.
A tactic used to mislead or delay.  Synonym: stalling.
verb
(past & past part. stalled; pres. part. stalling)
1.
Postpone doing what one should be doing.  Synonyms: dilly-dally, dillydally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, procrastinate, shillyshally.
2.
Come to a stop.  Synonym: conk.
3.
Deliberately delay an event or action.
4.
Put into, or keep in, a stall.
5.
Experience a stall in flight, of airplanes.
6.
Cause an airplane to go into a stall.
7.
Cause an engine to stop.



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"Stall" Quotes from Famous Books



... at her labor and sang: "Ten acres of land, and a cow-house with three stalls and a stall for the new calf, and a pigsty, and a house for my bones and a barn for my hay and straw, and a loft for my hens: why should men pray for more?" She ambled to Moriah, diverting passers-by with boastful tales of Joseph, and loosened her imaginings to ...
— My Neighbors - Stories of the Welsh People • Caradoc Evans
... a palace, one a stall. One marble; one a plaster wall. One sure to stand; one sure to fall. So much ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 • Various
... Abner.' She walked to the window, and, as if to tide over what was plainly passing in their minds about her, she began to make remarks on objects in the street. 'What a quaint being—look, Charlotte!' It was an old woman sitting by a stall on the opposite side of the way, which seemed suddenly to hit Paula's sense of the humorous, though beyond the fact that the dame was old and poor, and wore a white handkerchief over her head, there was really ...
— A Laodicean • Thomas Hardy
... box stall for them, and out bounced the big white dog, barking in delight, and almost knocking down the twins, so glad ...
— The Bobbsey Twins at School • Laura Lee Hope
... are worth four hundred pounds a year more. Crabtree Canonicorum is in the gift of the dean and chapter, and is at this time possessed by the Honourable and Reverend Dr Vesey Stanhope, who also fills the prebendal stall of Goosegorge in Barchester Chapter, and holds the united rectory of Eiderdown and Stogpingum, or Stoke Pinquium, as it should be written. This is the same Dr Vesey Stanhope whose hospitable villa on the Lake ...
— The Warden • Anthony Trollope


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