Definitions for stall

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stall stall

Spelling: [stawl]

IPA: /stɔl/

Stall is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in stall (allst).

Definitions for stall

noun

1. a compartment in a stable or shed for the accommodation of one animal.
2. a stable or shed for horses or cattle.
3. a booth or stand in which merchandise is displayed for sale, or in which some business is carried on (sometimes used in combination):
4. carrel (def 1).
5. one of a number of fixed enclosed seats in the choir or chancel of a church for the use of the clergy.
6. a pew.
7. any small compartment or booth for a specific activity or housing a specific thing:
8. a rectangular space marked off or reserved for parking a car or other vehicle, as in a parking lot.
9. an instance or the condition of causing an engine, or a vehicle powered by an engine, to stop, especially by supplying it with a poor fuel mixture or by overloading it.
10. Aeronautics. an instance or the condition of causing an airplane to fly at an angle of attack greater than the angle of maximum lift, causing loss of control and a downward spin. Compare critical angle (def 2).
11. a protective covering for a finger or toe, as various guards and sheaths or one finger of a glove.
12. British. a chairlike seat in a theater, separated from others by arms or rails, especially one in the front section of the parquet.
13. a pretext, as a ruse, trick, or the like, used to delay or deceive.
14. Underworld Slang. the member of a pickpocket's team who distracts the victim long enough for the theft to take place. Compare wire (def 11).
15. Sports. slowdown (def 3).

verb (used with object)

1. to assign to, put, or keep in a stall or stalls, as an animal or a car.
2. to confine in a stall for fattening, as cattle.
3. to cause (a motor or the vehicle it powers) to stop, especially by supplying it with a poor fuel mixture or overloading it.
4. Aeronautics. to put (an airplane) into a stall. to lose control of or crash (an airplane) from so doing.
5. to bring to a standstill; check the progress or motion of, especially unintentionally.
6. to cause to stick fast, as in mire or snow.
7. to delay or put off, especially by evasion or deception (often followed by off):

verb (used without object)

1. (of an engine, car, airplane, etc.) to be stalled or go through the process of stalling (sometimes followed by out).
2. to come to a standstill; be brought to a stop.
3. to stick fast, as in mire.
4. to occupy a stall, as an animal.
5. to delay, especially by evasion or deception.
6. Sports. to prolong holding the ball as a tactic to prevent the opponent from scoring, as when one's team has the lead. Compare freeze (def 31).

Origin of stall

before 900; Middle English; Old English steall; cognate with German Stall, Old Norse stallr; akin to Old English stellan, German stellen to put, place

Examples for stall

The tactic made sense only as a stall for defendants each facing 20 years or more in prison.

But there are deep suspicions in Kiev that the Russians only went to Geneva to stall threatened Western economic sanctions.

After allowing his lesser-known rapper friend, the shrieking Psycho Egyptian, to stall until he was ready, Blanco takes the stage.

When Somali pirates forced Ricahrd Phillips to give up his crew, he had to stall by any means—or face the death of all his men.

In rushing from Lauzanne's stall Allis had left the door swinging on its hinges.

“At a rodeo, in a stall, in a three-way,” says McConaughey with a chuckle.

Somehow he felt that he must drive the horses back, back, out of the stall.

Then Crane took Porter gently by the sleeve and drew him half within the stall.

It was Philip Crane, standing just outside of the stall, who thus addressed him.

And pushing, crowding, hugging the side of the stall, Mortimer fought his way to the girl.