stall
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
lifestyle
mining
paganism
religion
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.
Inflected forms:
form: stalls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stalls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stalling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stalled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stalled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A stable; a place for cattle.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A small open-fronted shop, for example in a market, food court, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days [...]
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'.
gloss: A small partitioned space or roomlet used for a shower or a toilet.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: An Heathen altar, typically an indoor one, as contrasted with a more substantial outdoor harrow.
pos: noun
tags: Germanic
examples: In a private rite, a ring is drawn on the ground around a harrow or before an indoor stall.
Some Asatruar kindreds call their indoor altars stalls and their outdoor altars harrows.
Stalli (STAL-i) - Altar.
gloss: A seat in a church, especially one next to the chancel or choir, reserved for church officials and dignitaries.
pos: noun
gloss: A church office that entitles the incumbent to the use of a church stall.
pos: noun
examples: 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; […]
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.
gloss: A sheath to protect the finger.
pos: noun
gloss: The space left by excavation between pillars.
pos: noun
gloss: A parking stall; a space for a vehicle in a parking lot or parkade.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of stallsman (“an accomplice”).
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: The "super" or watch is passed to a stall, who hurries away, while the "dip" continues on the car. No sign of recognition passes between the members of the mob when at work.
gloss: To put (an animal, etc.) in a stall.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to stall an ox
But Niſus hit the Turns with happier haſte,
And thoughtleſs of his Friend, the Foreſt paſs'd:
And Alban Plains, from Alba's Name ſo call'd,
Where King Latinus then his Oxen ſtall'd.
gloss: To fatten.
pos: verb
examples: to stall cattle
gloss: To live in, or as if in, a stall; to dwell.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: I must perforce
Haue ſhewne to thee ſuch a declining day,
Or looke on thine: we could not ſtall together
In the whole world.
gloss: To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.
pos: verb
examples: Deck'd in thy rights , as thou art stall'd in mine
gloss: To forestall; to anticipate.
pos: verb
examples: This is not to be staled by my report,
This only must be told: […]
gloss: To keep close; to keep secret.
pos: verb
examples: You haue diſcharg'd this honeſtlie, keepe it to your ſelfe, […] praie you leaue mee, ſtall this in your boſome, and I thanke you for your honeſt care: I will ſpeake with you further anon.
Derived words: bookstall
box stall
buckstall
cart stall
choirstall
choir stall
cowstall
cow stall
farmstall
farm stall
foodstall
food stall
footstall
green-stall
headstall
homestall
laystall
market stall
multistall
orchestra stalls
pillar and stall
sarabat stall
set out one's stall
sidestall
sow stall
stallage
stall bars
stallboard
stall-fed
stallfeed
stall-feed
stall feed
stall handler
stallholder
stallholding
stallkeeper
stallman
stall-reader
stawsome
super stall
tail stall
thumbstall
washstall
whelk stall
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