Word Finder - stall

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A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed.

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• boose

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A stable; a place for cattle.

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A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.

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A small open-fronted shop, for example in a market, food court, etc.

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A very small room used for a shower or a toilet.

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A seat in a theatre close to and (about) level with the stage; traditionally, a seat with arms, or otherwise partly enclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.

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Loss of lift due to an airfoil's critical angle of attack being exceeded.

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An Heathen altar, typically an indoor one, as contrasted with a more substantial outdoor harrow.

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A seat in a church, especially one next to the chancel or choir, reserved for church officials and dignitaries.

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A church office that entitles the incumbent to the use of a church stall.

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A sheath to protect the finger.

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The space left by excavation between pillars.

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A parking stall; a space for a vehicle in a parking lot or parkade.

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To put (an animal, etc.) in a stall.

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to stall an ox

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To fatten.

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to stall cattle

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To come to a standstill.

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To cause to stop making progress, to hinder, to slow down, to delay or forestall.

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To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix.

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to stall a cart

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(of an engine) To stop suddenly.

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To cause the engine of a manual-transmission car to stop by going too slowly for the selected gear.

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To exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.

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To live in, or as if in, a stall; to dwell.

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To be stuck, as in mire or snow; to stick fast.

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To be tired of eating, as cattle.

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To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.

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To forestall; to anticipate.

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To keep close; to keep secret.

She paused at the last stall and smiled.

I hit it on the edge of the stall when I was running from him.

In the next stall was Random.

When they reached the stall, Casper's flanks were wet with sweat.

He stopped at the last stall and deftly lifted the bucket over the gate, placing it on the floor with ease.

In the oldest form of this class of working, where the size of the pillar is equal to the width of the stall or excavation, about 4 of the whole seam will be removed, the remainder being left in the pillars.

I laid her gently and silently on the floor and proceeded to the first stall, and slipped it open with my knife.

Ignoring the hisses of the others, she locked herself in a bathroom stall and texted her boss, Dusty.

In the next stall the goat was laying on her side, straining... could be a problem there.

He exited the stall and closed the gate, staring down at her defiantly.

She paced around the stall and then lay down again.

Then she rushed to the stall where Princess stood nickering.

In the third stall was Casper.

She led Princess into a stall and removed the saddle and bridle.

She found Brutus in the stall next to Ed where Alex had put him.

She returned to the first stall to find two new arrivals and another on the way.

The dairy door groaned as she opened it and Ed whinnied from his stall in the barn.

She walked Princess out of her stall and over to the saddle.

In Whitsun week, 1547, he preached a "notable sermon" at St Paul's Cross, and was given the third stall in Rochester cathedral.

If you don't give the car enough gas, the car will stall.

From the next stall, Dawn answered.

Alex exited the stall wiping his hands on the towel and grinning.

Carmen entered the stall and knelt beside the doe.

She darted back to the kidding stall and knelt beside the goat again.

We need to get her to a kidding stall.

Alex had broken the ice off the top of the water trough by the time she got there and every stall was filled with fresh hay.

She opened the stall door to release Princess, Casper and Random in the pasture, and then saddled Ed.

I hear him leading his horse out of the stall, I hear the clatter on the barn floor.

Finally he entered the stall and wrapped the towel around the foal's legs.

Carmen leaned against the stall and whispered.

Carmen managed to get Tessa into a stall, and then hobbled to the dairy for some warm water.

She hurried to his stall and hugged his neck.

Casper stuck her head out of the stall and eyed Carmen with anticipation.

He put Ed in the stall and took the harness off before turning to Carmen.

Carmen started for the stall, but Rob grabbed her left arm.

In the former, which is also known as " post and stall" or "bord and pillar " in the north of England, " pillar and stall " in South Wales, and " stoop and room " in Scotland, the field is divided into strips by numerous openings driven parallel to the main rise headings, called " bords " or " bord gates," which are again divided by cutting through them at intervals, so as to leave a series of pillars arranged chequer-wise over the entire area.

In despair, her father seized a knife from a neighbouring stall and plunged it in her side.

In a cathedral the canons and prebendaries have each a stall assigned to them.

George's Chapel, Windsor, are the stalls of the Knights of the Garter, in Henry VII.'s Chapel in Westminster Abbey are those of the Knights of the Bath, adorned with the stall plates emblazoned with the arms of the knight occupying the stall, above which is suspended his banner.

In 1863 he was given a prebendal stall at St Paul's, and from 1869 to 1874 he was a member of the committee appointed by Convocation to revise the authorized version of the Old Testament.

The stall grew into Courtyard Books, a secondhand bookshop just paces from the stall.

The police go to question the stall owner who sells the scarves.

This is ideal for use in a bathroom shower stall.

Replace it with a stand-up shower stall that fits in the corner.

He nodded and started for the last stall.

The door to the kidding stalls was open and she stepped through, moving swiftly as she checked each stall.

Get it in by the stove while I put Tessa in a stall.

Then she threw a leaf of alfalfa hay into her stall.

Stall and heap roasting require considerable time, and can only be economically employed when the loss of the sulphur is of no consequence; they also occupy much space, but they have the advantage of requiring little fuel and handling.

Heap, stall or shaft furnace roasting is not very satisfactory, as it is very difficult to transform all the sulphide into oxide.