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Stall   /stɔl/   Listen
noun
Stall  n.  
1.
A stand; a station; a fixed spot; hence, the stand or place where a horse or an ox is kept and fed; the division of a stable, or the compartment, for one horse, ox, or other animal. "In an oxes stall."
2.
A stable; a place for cattle. "At last he found a stall where oxen stood."
3.
A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall.
4.
A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale. "How peddlers' stalls with glittering toys are laid."
5.
A seat in the choir of a church, for one of the officiating clergy. It is inclosed, either wholly or partially, at the back and sides. The stalls are frequently very rich, with canopies and elaborate carving. "The dignified clergy, out of humility, have called their thrones by the names of stalls." "Loud the monks sang in their stalls."
6.
In the theater, a seat with arms or otherwise partly inclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.
7.
(Mining) The space left by excavation between pillars. See Post and stall, under Post.
8.
A covering or sheath, as of leather, horn, of iron, for a finger or thumb; a cot; as, a thumb stall; a finger stall.
Stall reader, one who reads books at a stall where they are exposed for sale. "Cries the stall reader, "Bless us! what a word on A titlepage is this!""


verb
Stall  v. t.  (past & past part. stalled; pres. part. stalling)  
1.
To put into a stall or stable; to keep in a stall or stalls; as, to stall an ox. "Where King Latinus then his oxen stalled."
2.
To fatten; as, to stall cattle. (Prov. Eng.)
3.
To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install. (Obs.)
4.
To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix; as, to stall a cart. "His horses had been stalled in the snow."
5.
To forestall; to anticipate. (Obs.) "This is not to be stall'd by my report."
6.
To keep close; to keep secret. (Obs.) "Stall this in your bosom."


Stall  v. i.  
1.
To live in, or as in, a stall; to dwell. (Obs.) "We could not stall together In the whole world."
2.
To kennel, as dogs.
3.
To be set, as in mire or snow; to stick fast.
4.
To be tired of eating, as cattle. (Prov. Eng.)





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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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