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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

... Koontie Mamadie's account, eleven thousand inhabitants. It has no public buildings, except the mosques, two of which, though built of mud, are by no means inelegant. The market place is a large square, and the different articles of merchandize are exposed for sale on stalls covered with mats, to shade them from the sun. The market is crowded with people from morning to night: some of the stalls contain nothing but beads; others indigo in balls; others wood-ashes in balls; others Houssa and Jinnie cloth. I observed one stall with nothing but ...

— The Journal Of A Mission To The Interior Of Africa, In The Year 1805 • Mungo Park

... am informed that nothing could exceed the admirable conduct of the corps above mentioned. Yesterday we heard no cannonade, but this afternoon it has been unceasing and still continues. All the caricatures and satires against Napoleon have disappeared from the windows and stalls. The shops are all shut, the English families flying to Antwerp; and the proclamation of the Baron de Capellen[15] to the inhabitants, wherein he exhorts them to be tranquil and assures them that the Bureaux of Government have not yet quitted Bruxelles, only serves ...

— After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 • Major W. E Frye

... a friendship commonly so called—meaning thereby a sentiment founded on the good dinners, good stories, opera stalls, and days' hooting you have gotten or hope to get out of a man, the snug things in his gift, and his powers of procuring enjoyment of one kind or another to miserable body or intellect—why, such a friendship ...

— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes

... on his knee. All children loved him for he could tell them wonderful fairy tales and strange stories of the forest. He told them of the goblins that came at night to water the horses, of how the oxen talked in their stalls on Christmas Eve, of how a spider shut up in a nutshell could cure the fever, and of the marvellous powers possessed by horse shoes and four-leaved clover. He knew more strange ...

— The Junior Classics • Various

... road was rough and rocky and the equipage was light. Almost instantly the horses tore the tongue from the jumper, which was trigged by a bowlder. The animals crashed around in a circle through the underbrush, leaped into the tote road, and went galloping back toward Adonia, seeking their stalls and safety. ...

— Joan of Arc of the North Woods • Holman Day

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