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stalled, ppl. a.|stɔːld|
[f. stall n.1 and v.1 + -ed.]
†1. Payable at fixed periods. Cf. stall v.1 4.
1553Act 7 Edw. VI c. 1 §8 Collectoures of Customes, or certeyne and stalled Subsidies within any Porte [etc.].
2. Of a person: Endowed with or occupying a (church) stall. ? Obs.
1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 388 Certaine select & stalled persons. 1742Young Nt. Th. iv. 74 Was I as plump, as stall'd theology. 1829I. Taylor Enthus. x. 262 Infidelity aggravated by stalled hypocrisy.
3. Of an animal: Confined to a stall; fattened in a stall for killing. lit. and fig.
1560Bible (Geneva) Prov. xv. 17 Better is a dinner of grene herbes where loue is, then a stalled oxe and hatred therewith. 1638Penkethman Artachthos I 3 b, A fat stalled Cow 12s. 1734tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. xvii. ii. (1768) V. 511 To die a death worthy of Sparta, and not to wait as stalled victims, till it was thought proper to sacrifice them. 1886Stevenson Prince Otto I. iv. 56 About the stable all else was silent but the stamping of stalled horses. 1895Sir H. Maxwell Dk. of Britain xv, Stalled venison braised with prunes.
4. a. Divided into stalls or compartments for animals.
1825Hazlitt Spirit of Age 6 He proposed at one time..to make Milton's house..a thoroughfare, like a three-stalled stable. 1839Bailey Festus (1852) 139 Through the foul-stalled stable of this world. 1898J. K. Fowler Rec. Old Times 108 The stables were stalled.
b. Archæol. stalled cairn: on the Orkneys, a Neolithic cairn covering a burial-chamber which was divided into lateral cells by stone slabs projecting from the wall.
[1934J. G. Callander in Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scotl. LXVIII. 320 (heading) A long stalled chambered cairn or mausoleum (Rousay type) near Midhowe, Rousay, Orkney.] 1937C. S. T. Calder in Ibid. LXXI. 117 (caption) Stalled cairn, Calf of Eday: plan and sections. 1954S. Piggott Neolithic Cultures Brit. Isles viii. 234 The Camster tombs..are..from the northern shores of the Moray Firth..and thence up the coastal strip of Sutherland and Caithness. Their derivatives in Orkney, which include as the ultimate form the long ‘Stalled Cairn’ type..are mostly concentrated in the islands of Rousay and Eday. 1963Field Archaeol. (Ordnance Survey) (ed. 4) 31 Other peculiar features in Orkney are the ‘stalled’ cairns in which what is really a long and carefully-constructed cist is divided into as many as ten or more lateral cells. 1980Encounter May 56/2 Renfrew and his team focused on the island of Rousay with its remarkable number of stalled cairns.
5. a. Of a vehicle, etc.: That has stuck fast.
1839Bailey Festus (1852) 335 It is they Who set their shoulders to the stalled world's wheel And give it a hitch forwards. 1851Mayne Reid Scalp-Hunt. iii. 24 Now and then we were halted to help a ‘stalled’ wagon from its miry bed.
b. Of an aircraft or aerofoil: in an airflow that has ceased to be streamline. Also applied to flight in this condition.
1912O. Wright in M. McFarland Papers Wilbur & Orville Wright (1953) II. 1050 There is only one explanation that I can give and that is the one that you suggest, that the machine was ‘stalled’. 1932Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. XXXVI. 312 Two sensations are characteristic of stalled flying: first of all, a very noticeable increase in the rate of descent, and secondly the reversed effect of elevator control on the inclination of the gliding path. 1966McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. XIII. 228/2 For some wings, if the root section is placed at an angle near stall, the tip sections will probably be stalled. 1969W. Thomson Thrust for Flight 8 If the angle of attack is made too large.., flow becomes turbulent and the blade is said to be stalled.
c. Of a vehicle or engine: stopped through having stalled.
1966B. H. Deal Fancy's Knell (1967) x. 153 A man with a stalled pickup stood futilely beside it in the middle of the street. 1977‘D. Rutherford’ Return Load i. 13 Sally restarted the stalled engine, engaged first gear and tentatively let in the clutch.
6. Glutted, satiated.
1740Dyche & Pardon Dict. (ed. 3), Stalled,..also surfeited, or made to loath any particular food, by eating too much often of it. 1788W. H. Marshall Yorksh. II. 355 Stalled; satiated with eating. 1798Roscoe tr. Tansillo's Nurse i. (1800) 33 Heedless what venom taints the stream she gives, So your stall'd offspring vegetates and lives. |