stall : Idioms & Phrases

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Book stall

  • a stand or stall, often in the open air, for retailing books.
Webster 1913

coffee stall

  • noun a stand (usually movable) selling hot coffee and food (especially at night)
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Dean's stall

  • . See Decanal stall, under Decanal.
Webster 1913

Decanal stall

  • the stall allotted to the dean in the choir, on the right or south side of the chancel.
Webster 1913

Finger stall

  • a cover or shield for a finger.
Webster 1913

front-stall

  • noun medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head
    chamfron; testiere; chanfron; frontstall.
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green-stall

Green"-stall` noun
Definitions
  1. A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale.
Webster 1913

Post and stall

  • (Coal Mining), a mode of working in which pillars of coal are left to support the roof of the mine.
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shower stall

  • noun booth for washing yourself, usually in a bathroom
    shower bath.
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stall bar

  • noun a gymnastic apparatus used for strengthening exercises; uprights fastened to a wall and connected by horizontal rungs
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Stall reader

  • one who reads books at a stall where they are exposed for sale.
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stall-fed

  • adjective satellite (of livestock) kept and fed in a stall in order to fatten for the market
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stall-feed

Stall"-feed transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Stall-fed ; present participle & verbal noun Stall-feeding
Definitions
  1. To feed and fatten in a stall or on dry fodder; as, to stall-feed an ox.
Webster 1913

starting stall

  • noun a movable barrier on the starting line of a race course
    starting gate.
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Thumb stall

  • . (a) A kind of thimble or ferrule of iron, or leather, for protecting the thumb in making sails, and in other work. (b) (Mil.) A buckskin cushion worn on the thumb, and used to close the vent of a cannon while it is sponged, or loaded.
Webster 1913