Word Finder - stalls

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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.

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An action that is intended to cause or actually causes delay.

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His encounters with security, reception, the secretary, and the assistant were all stalls until the general manager's attorney arrived.

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To employ delaying tactics against.

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He stalled the creditors as long as he could.

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To employ delaying tactics.

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Soon it became clear that she was stalling to give him time to get away.

Two occupied stalls and he couldn't figure out where to put the water.

It contains some rich stalls of the 15th century and other objects of interest.

Alex glanced down the line of stalls and quirked a brow at Carmen.

She pointed down the row of stalls.

She followed him to one of the stalls, trying to remember the circumstances of his rejected love.

Mercuriale stands in the principal square, and contains, besides paintings, some good carved and inlaid choir stalls by Alessandro dei Bigni.

The first edition also gives an engraving of the ark (repeated in the editions up to the fifth), in shape like a long roofed box, floating on the waters; the animals are seen in separate stalls.

In the East End and other poor quarters a large trade in second-hand clothing, flowers and vegetables, and many other commodities is carried on in the streets on movable stalls by costermongers and hawkers.

It is reserved for the priests, and in that respect differs from the choir, the stalls in which are occasionally occupied by the laity.

In some cases a failure to understand his meaning led to curious results; for example, the medieval custom, not uncommon in England, of placing rows of earthenware jars under the floor of the stalls in church choirs, appears to have been an attempt to follow out suggestions raised by Vitruvius as to the advantages of placing bronze vases round the auditorium of theatres.

The church contains fine inlaid choir stalls by Fra Giovanni da Verona.

However, what did I discover but the child at the sink alone and the doors to two stalls closed!

Several women bathed in stalls, the easy banter between them marking their camaraderie.

Two of the goats had gone into labor, so she transferred them to the building on the release side of the dairy, where they had set up temporary kidding stalls.

Ed and Princess were in the first two stalls.

Modern Cheapside merges eastward into the street called the Poultry, from the poulterers' stalls " but lately departed from thence," according to Stow, at the close of the 16th century.

In the South Wales system of working, cross headings are driven from the main roads obliquely across the rise to get a sufficiently easy gradient for horse roads, and from these the stalls are opened out with a narrow entrance, in order to leave support on either side of the road, but afterwards widening to as great a breadth as the seam will allow, leaving pillars of a minimum thickness.

Near Baiae was the villa resort of Bauli, so called from the 1 30aata (stalls) in which the oxen of Geryon were' concealed by Hercules.

The huts of this last settlement appear to have had cattle stalls between them, the droppings and litter forming heaps at the lake bottom.

The duke of Bavaria offered to dispense with teaching, if he would only reside, and would have named him on these terms to a chair in his new university of Ingolstadt, with a salary of zoo ducats, and the reversion of one or more prebendal stalls.

The stalls of the monks, forming the ritual choir, occupy the four eastern bays of the nave.

There was a second range of stalls in the extreme western bays of the nave for the fratres conversi, or lay brothers.

The island is incidentally described with no small variety of detail, picturesque and topographical; the Homeric localities for which counterparts have been sought are Mount Neritos, Mount Neion, the harbour of Phorcys, the town and palace of Odysseus, the fountain of Arethusa, the cave of the Naiads, the stalls of the swineherd Eumaeus, the orchard of Laertes, the Korax or Raven Cliff and the island Asteris, where the suitors lay in ambush for Telemachus.

The nave very usually consisted of two equal bodies, one containing the stalls of the brotherhood, the other left entirely free for the congregation.

It consisted of the king and the Black Prince, and 24 knights divided into two bands of 12 like the tilters in a hastilude - at the head of the one being the first, and of the other the second; and to the companions belonging to each, when the order had superseded the Round Table and had become a permanent institution, were assigned stalls either on the sovereign's or the prince's side of St George's Chapel.

In the interior, which contains beautifully carved stalls, a choir-screen in the flamboyant style and many other works of art, the most striking features are the height of the nave and the boldness of the columns supporting the vaulting.

In cathedrals, monastic churches and the larger parish churches the stalls are fixed seats enclosed at the back and separated at the sides by high projecting arms, and placed in one or more rows on the north and south sides of the choir or chancel, running from the sanctuary to the screen or chancel arch.

These separate enclosed seats are properly reserved for the clergy, and more usually the choir are seated in open benches in front of the stalls.

In the chapels of the various knightly orders the stalls are assigned to the members of the order, thus, in St.

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.

I was just trying to make sure he put the water in the correct stalls.

Carmen was scooping hay out of one of the kidding stalls when he found her at the barn.

Aaron and Rob helped her unsaddle the horses and get them into stalls with hay and water.

The cathedral contains other 14th-century and early Renaissance paintings, the former including some Passion scenes, the only certain work of Barna da Siena, and some fine choir stalls.

In upper Italy cattle are principally reared in pens and stalls; in central Italy cattle are allowed to run half wild, the stall system being little practised; in the south and in the islands cattle are kept in the open air, few shelters being provided.

One end of the hippodrome was semicircular, and the other end square with an extensive portico, in front of which, at a lower level, were the stalls for the horses and chariots.

The old minster church, built in the middle of the 11th century, contains some fine choir stalls.

Architecturally and artistically considered, the stalls of a cathedral or church are a marked feature of the interior adornment.

Among beautiful specimens of carved stalls may be mentioned the Early Decorated stalls in Winchester Cathedral, the Early Perpendicular ones in Lincoln Minster, and the early 15th-century canopies in Norwich Cathedral.

The stalls, especially the towering corner-stalls with their ornate carving filled with figures, in Amiens Cathedral are very fine; they date from 1508-1520.

Eurystheus imposed upon Heracles the task of clearing out all his stalls unaided in one day.

The most important feature was the market-square, often surrounded by arcades with stalls for the sale of the principal commodities, and with a number of straight streets leading thence to the city gates.

After the decline of episcopacy the building was neglected for a long period, but the choir, which contains some carved oak stalls of the 16th century, was restored in 1873, and the nave roofed and restored in 1892-1895, under the direction of Sir Rowand Anderson, the architect.

The process is effected either in heaps, stalls, shaft furnaces, reverberatory furnaces or muffle furnaces.

The heat generated by the oxidation of iron and sulphur has always been used to maintain combustion in the kilns or stalls for roasting pyrites.

With pyritic smelting a sulphuretted copper ore, fed into a cupola in the morning, can be passed directly to the converter, blown up to metal, and shipped as 99% bars by evening - an operation which formerly, with heap roasting of the ore and repeated roasting of the mattes in stalls, would have occupied not less than four months.

The oak stalls in the choir are fine examples of late 16th-century carving.

In one of the chapels is a fine Madonna by Fra Bartolommeo; in the municipal picture gallery are a fine "God the Father" and another Madonna by him; also some sculptures by Civitali, and some good wood carving, including choir stalls.

This has long been the cathedral of St Doimo or Domnius, small and dark, but noteworthy for its finely carved choir stalls.

There are some Decorated canopied tombs, and the chancel stalls are of the i 5th century.