stall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɔːl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
ipa: /stɔl/
ipa: /stɑl/
homophone: STOL (some accents)
Forms: form: stalls
Etymology: From Middle English stall, stalle, from Old English steall (“standing place, position”), from Proto-Germanic *stallaz, from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to place, put, post, stand”). Cognate with French étal, Italian stallo, German Stall, Swedish stall.
Senses: synonyms: boose
glosses: A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed.
examples: text: His Fellow ſought what Lodging he could find:
At laſt he found a Stall where oxen ſtood,
And that he rather choſe than lie abroad.
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “The Cock and the Fox: Or, The Tale of the Nun’s Priest, from Chaucer”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 231:
glosses: A stable; a place for cattle.
examples: text: Now he goes on, and ſings of fairs and ſhows,
For ſtill new fairs before his eyes aroſe.
How pedlars' ſtalls with glitt'ring toys are laid,
The various fairings of the country maid.
ref: 1714, J[ohn] Gay, “Saturday; or, The Flights”, in The Shepherd’s Week. In Six Pastorals, London: […] R. Burleigh […], →OCLC, page 57, lines 71–74:
glosses: A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.
examples: text: He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days [...]
ref: 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:
text: Despite the swift backpedalling of the university, the original notice given to stall operators is suggestive of the potential existence of 'a growing English-speaking elite' that is 'happy to maintain the importance of the English language'.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 3:
glosses: A small open-fronted shop, for example in a market, food court, etc.
examples: text: Rabbit eases from the king-size bed, goes into their bathroom with its rose-colored one-piece Fiberglas tub and shower stall, and urinates into the toilet of a matching rose porcelain.
ref: 1990, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest:
glosses: A very small room used for a shower or a toilet.
glosses: A seat in a theatre close to and (about) level with the stage; traditionally, a seat with arms, or otherwise partly enclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.
examples: text: In a private rite, a ring is drawn on the ground around a harrow or before an indoor stall.
ref: 1989, Edred Thorsson, A Book of Troth, Llewellyn Publications, →ISBN, page 156:
text: Some Asatruar kindreds call their indoor altars stalls and their outdoor altars harrows.
ref: 2006, Selene Silverwind, “Asatruar Tools and Practices”, in Everything you need to know about Paganism, David & Charles, →ISBN, page 117:
text: Stalli (STAL-i) - Altar.
ref: 2006, Mark Puryear, The Nature of Asatru: An Overview of the Ideals and Philosophy of the Indigenous Religion of Northern Europe, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 237:
topics: lifestyle
paganism
religion
glosses: An Heathen altar, typically an indoor one, as contrasted with a more substantial outdoor harrow.
glosses: A seat in a church, especially one next to the chancel or choir, reserved for church officials and dignitaries.
examples: text: He had battled like a man, and gotten a man's reward — no silver tea-pots or salvers, with flowery inscriptions setting forth his virtues and the appreciation of a genteel parish; no fat living or stall, for which he never looked, and didn't care; […]
ref: 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:
text: 1910 [1840], Alexandre Dumas, père, translator not mentioned, Celebrated Crimes: Urbain Grandier, P. F. Collier edition,
When he had been some months installed there as a priest-in-charge, he received a prebendal stall, thanks to the same patrons, in the collegiate church of Sainte-Croix.
glosses: A church office that entitles the incumbent to the use of a church stall.
glosses: A sheath to protect the finger.
topics: business
mining
glosses: The space left by excavation between pillars.
glosses: A parking stall; a space for a vehicle in a parking lot or parkade.
Synonyms: sense: toilet stall
word: cubicle
sense: parking stall
word: bay
sense: parking stall
word: space
sense: parking stall
word: spot
Derived terms: box stall
cart stall
choir stall
choirstall
cow stall
farm stall
foodstall
food stall
green-stall
market stall
orchestra stalls
pillar and stall
sarabat stall
set out one's stall
sow stall
stall bars
stall-fed
stall-feed
stall feed
stall handler
stall-reader
super stall
tail stall
whelk stall