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Stalls   /stɔlz/   Listen
Stalls

noun
1.
A farm building for housing horses or other livestock.  Synonyms: horse barn, stable.



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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"Stalls" Quotes from Famous Books



... of shabby tenement-houses, and whisked by the ends of wide, dusty avenues of yet incomplete structure, and by beds of market-gardens, and by simple feeding-places for man and beast, with the tables set close in front of the stalls. An ambitiously frescoed casino had a gigantic peacock painted over a whole story, and the peach-trees were in bloom in the villa spaces. When we struck into the Campagna we found it of like physiognomy ...
— Roman Holidays and Others • W. D. Howells

... actual buildings the Perpendicular architects, masons and sculptors have left us some beautiful work in the form of timber roofs, screens, stalls and seats. Among the more notable roofs of this period are those at S. Peter's, S. Andrew's and S. Mary's, Norwich, the one at Morton Church in Somerset, those at Saffron Walden and Thaxted, Essex, and a particularly fine one at S. David's Cathedral ...
— Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them • Sidney Heath

... hunters are gone from the stalls And a host of good men to the millions that meet, For grim is the Huntsman, in thunder he calls, And continents roar with the galloping feet; There's a country to cross where the fences are steel, And, though many must fall and the finish is far, There is ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 28, 1914 • Various

... to smile, and pages in attendance wait; The horses slept within their stalls, the dogs about the gate. The King's son presses on, into an inner chamber fair, And sees, laid on a silken bed, a lovely lady there; So sweet a face, so fair—was never beauty such as this; He stands—he stoops to gaze—he kneels—he wakes ...
— The Sleeping Beauty Picture Book - Containing The Sleeping Beauty; Bluebeard; The Baby's Own Alaphabet • Anonymous

... through upland pastures and centuries of torment in vain effort to steal from them their milk, and in noisome dungeons he fought with rats for scraps and refuse. There was no food that was not a madness to him, and he wandered through vast stables, where fat horses stood in mile-long rows of stalls, and sought but never found the ...
— Smoke Bellew • Jack London


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