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Stalling   /stˈɔlɪŋ/   Listen
Stalling

noun
1.
A tactic used to mislead or delay.  Synonym: stall.


Stall

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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"Stalling" Quotes from Famous Books



... them at Hall as her pensioners. In the year 1747, Charles (by this time a man of forty) had the temerity to get religion from the Rev. John Wesley. The great preacher had assembled a crowd on the green by the cross-roads beyond Parc-an-hal. Charles Rosewarne, who was stalling the cattle after milking-time, heard the outcries, and strolled up the road to look. Two hours later he returned, fell on his knees in the outer kitchen, and began to wrestle for his soul, the farm-maids standing ...
— Shining Ferry • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... you what I mean, and I'll show you blamed quick if you don't open that safe!" Slimmy Jack threatened hoarsely. "Blast you, you're stalling on me—that's what you're doing! I've seen you work before. You could open that thing with your finger nails, if you wanted ...
— The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard
... desirable. The knavish Newton planted himself in the path of the laboring car, and waved its driver a command to halt. The car came to a standstill with its front wheels in the edge of the loose earth, and the chauffeur fuming at the possibility of stalling—a contingency upon which Newton had ...
— The Brown Mouse • Herbert Quick
... dead, sinking feeling. So he hadn't believed a word she said. He'd been stalling her along until ...
— Novice • James H. Schmitz
... prosecuted their researches undisturbed. In 1904 they made more than a hundred flights, practising turning movements and complete circles, and learning how to handle the machine so as to prevent it from 'stalling', that is, from losing flying speed and falling to earth out of control when the air resistance caused by its manoeuvring reduced its speed. In 1905 they built another machine and resumed their experiments ...
— The War in the Air; Vol. 1 - The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force • Walter Raleigh
... you've got to help me out on this. You know the country. There's no use stalling. ...
— The Innocent Adventuress • Mary Hastings Bradley
... get First Blood, but just as often she would fiddle around for an Opening and then Zowie!—right on the Conk and him Stalling ...
— Knocking the Neighbors • George Ade


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