单词 | stalled |
释义 | stalledadj.ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > [adjective] > specific systems of payment stalled1553 pay-as-you-go1840 instalment1876 pay-as-you-use1929 1553 Act 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. ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > benefice > [adjective] > holding beneficedc1425 beneficial1592 incumbent1604 stalled1630 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 388 Certaine select & stalled persons. 1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 7 Was I as plump, as stall'd Theology. 1829 I. Taylor Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm x. 262 Infidelity aggravated by stalled hypocrisy. 3. Of an animal: Confined to a stall; fattened in a stall for killing. literal and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [adjective] > enclosed in pen, stall, etc. enclosed1552 stalled1560 impent1633 shedded1850 ox-fenced1852 penning1854 coted1866 impounded1888 1560 Bible (Geneva) Prov. xv. 17 Better is a dinner of grene herbes where loue is, then a stalled oxe and hatred therewith. 1638 J. Penkethman Artachthos sig. Iiijv A fat stalled Cow 12s. 1739 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 2) VIII. 35 To die a death worthy of Sparta; and not to wait, as stalled victims, till it was thought proper to sacrifice them. 1886 R. L. Stevenson Prince Otto I. iv. 56 About the stable all else was silent but the stamping of stalled horses. 1895 H. Maxwell Duke of Brit. xv Stalled venison braised with prunes. 4. a. Divided into stalls or compartments for animals. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal enclosure or house general > [adjective] > of animal enclosures: divided into stalls stalled1825 1825 W. Hazlitt Spirit of Age 6 He proposed at one time..to make Milton's house..a thoroughfare, like a three-stalled stable. 1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 109 Through the foul-stalled stable of this world. 1898 J. K. Fowler Rec. Old Times 108 The stables were stalled. b. stalled cairn n. Archaeology on the Orkneys, a Neolithic cairn covering a burial-chamber which was divided into lateral cells by stone slabs projecting from the wall. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > monument > [noun] > cairn cairn1535 stalled cairn1937 society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [noun] > structure or erection > cairn > specific stalled cairn1937 1934 J. G. Callander in Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. 68 320 (heading) A long stalled chambered cairn or mausoleum (Rousay type) near Midhowe, Rousay, Orkney.] 1937 C. S. T. Calder in Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. 71 117 (caption) Stalled cairn, Calf of Eday: plan and sections. 1954 S. 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. 1963 Field Archaeol. (Ordnance Surv.) (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. 1980 Encounter 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. Also of passengers. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > [adjective] > rendered immobile or held fast clought?a1400 loggedc1820 stalled1845 stuck1845 stranded1851 immobilized1910 seized1911 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > movement of vehicles > [adjective] > stuck fast (wheeled vehicle) stalled1845 1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 247 It is they Who set their shoulders to the stalled world's wheel And give it a hitch forwards. 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. iii. 32 Now and then..we were halted to..help a ‘stalled’ wagon from its miry bed. 1904 N.Y. Evening Post 2 Feb. 10 The stalled passengers were provided with food by the railroad authorities, and most of them slept in the cars. b. Of an aircraft or aerofoil: in an airflow that has ceased to be streamline. Also applied to flight in this condition. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > specific movements or positions of aircraft > [adjective] > stalled stalled1912 1912 O. 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’. 1932 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 36 312 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. 1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) XIII. 228/2 For some wings, if the root section is placed at an angle near stall, the tip sections will probably be stalled. 1969 W. 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. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > movement of vehicles > [adjective] > stalled (motor vehicle) stalled1966 1966 B. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > [adjective] > over-fed, gorged, or sated full of foodOE surfeitousc1390 repletea1400 satiate1440 fulsome1447 overfed1579 surfeited1584 gorged1594 overgorged1607 gluttoneda1658 saturated1658 throat-full1681 quat?c1730 stalled1740 englutted1814 cloyed1830 stodged1873 1740 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. (ed. 3) Stalled,..surfeited, or made to loath any particular food, by eating too much often of it. 1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 355 Stalled, satiated with eating. 1798 W. Roscoe tr. L. Tansillo Nurse (1800) i. 33 Heedless what venom taints the stream she gives, So your stall'd offspring vegetates and lives. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < adj.1553 |
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