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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



... enclosure, which is made of strong trees, and some of them break their tusks in endeavouring to force their way out. The people then goad him with pointed canes, till they force him into a narrow stall, in which he is securely fastened with strong ropes about his body and legs, and is left there for three or four days without food or drink. Then they bring a female to him, with food and drink, and ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VII • Robert Kerr
... in his orchestra-stall at the opera. They were singing The Huguenots. The Marquise occupied her box between the columns. The numerous acquaintances Camors met in the passages during the first entr'acte prevented his ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... Liverpool Street Suburban line. He was going down to Enfield in his professional capacity, and while he waited for his train, walking up and down, his attention was caught by a figure which appeared in some way familiar to him standing at the book-stall. A minute, and he had recognised it as that of the youth who had been so bent ...
— A Sheaf of Corn • Mary E. Mann
... immediate use—sold hot to passers by, and eaten as they stood—with stalls of pastry of many kinds, bread, cakes, and confectionery; chocolate, flavored with vanilla and other spices, and pulque, prepared with many varying flavors, tempted the passers by. All these commodities, and every stall and portico, were set out and well-nigh ...
— By Right of Conquest - Or, With Cortez in Mexico • G. A. Henty
... apparently easier; temperature 102.5 deg., but very difficult respiration; laxative had operated during the night; ordered diffusible stimulants. About two hours and a half after my last visit, the horse turned round in his stall and dropped down dead! ...
— Diseases of the Horse's Foot • Harry Caulton Reeks


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