stall¹ /stöl/

1. A standing-place
2. A stable, cowshed, or the like
3. A compartment for one animal
4. A bench, table, booth or stand for the display or sale of goods, or used as a working place
5. A church seat with arms, usu one of those lining the choir or chancel on both sides, reserved for cathedral clergy, for choir, for monks, or for knights of an order
6. An office entitling one to such a seat
7. A doorless pew
8. An individual seat with arms in a theatre, etc, esp (in pl) on the ground floor
9. A working place in a mine
10. A covering for a finger (as in fingerstall)
11. A starting stall (qv under start)
12. An instance of stalling in aircraft or engine
13. A standstill
14. (Scot staw) a surfeit

1. To put or keep in a stall
2. To induct, install
3. To bring to a standstill
4. To cause (an aeroplane) to fly in such a way that the angle between the aerofoils and the direction of motion is greater than that at which there is maximum lift, and so lose control
5. To stop (an engine) by sudden braking, overloading, etc
6. To cause (a vehicle) to become stuck in mud or snow
7. (esp in Scots form staw) to surfeit
8. (pap stal'd /stöld/) to release on payment by instalments (Spenser)

1. To come to a standstill
2. To stick in mud or snow
3. (of an aircraft or engine) to be stalled
4. To inhabit a stall
5. To dwell (obsolete)
6. To share a dwelling (obsolete)

stallage /stölˈij/ noun

Rent paid for erecting a stall in a fair or market

stalled adjective

1. Kept or fed in a stall
2. Fatted
3. Having a stall or stalls
4. Stuck
5. Sated (Scot stawed)

stallˈing noun

Stabling

stallˈinger or stallˈenger /-in-jər/ noun (historical)

1. A keeper of a stall
2. A person who paid for the privilege of trading in a burgh of which he was not a freeman

stallˈ-fed adjective

(of domestic animals) fed and fattened in a stall

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