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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



... Post Office with Mrs. Channing's letter, I met with Thomas Dean, and got my two letters from Mr. Baker and C. D. Found J. Dean looking thinner. We walked through some auction stores to J. Hulme's son-in-law; he keeps a very large Book-Stall; hence I entered an auction of watches, afterwards of wine, etc.; then to the Exchange, but soon got tired of standing to read the papers. Read over again my letters; devoured two peaches; was charged 3d. T. D. kindly invited me to his house; had purchased one for 11,000 dollars; would have ...
— A Journey to America in 1834 • Robert Heywood

... a passing student. The consul or monitor, who was bound by his duty to look after the comrades entrusted to his care, had such frightfully wide pockets to his trousers that he could stow away the whole contents of the gaping dealer's stall in them. These students constituted an entirely separate world, for they were not admitted to the higher circles, composed of Polish and Russian nobles. Even the Waiwode, Adam Kisel, in spite of the patronage he bestowed upon the academy, did not seek to introduce them into society, and ordered ...
— Taras Bulba and Other Tales • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

... praise from the robber's comrades, and he disguised himself at once so that nobody could take him for what he was. Just at daybreak he entered the town, and walked up and down till he came by chance to Baba Mustapha's stall, which was always open before any ...
— The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites • Eva March Tappan

... called. The bishop occupies what is in most cathedrals the dean's seat—on the south of the entrance at the screen. The north side is in consequence the Decani side, and the Cantoris side is on the south. This position of the dean's stall on the north, though very unusual, is not unique. It occurs also at Durham and Carlisle; but at those cathedrals there is a throne for the bishop, and the bishop's seat in a stall in the south, corresponding to the ...
— Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely • W. D. Sweeting

... old Frenchwoman's stand, and we each drank a cup of the strong black coffee, which she insisted on paying for. Then we crossed the market to a deserted stall, whose owner had probably sold out her small stock at an early hour and gone home. We sat down, and she began: "You have told me your name. Mine is Gardine—Vera Gardine. I have a brother ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 • Various


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