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Stall [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Primarily, a stand; a station; a fixed spot; hence, the stand or place where a horse or an ox is kept and fed; the division of a stable, or the apartment for one horse or ox. The stable contains eight or ten stalls.

2. A stable; a place for cattle.

3. At last he found a stall where oxen stood.

4. In 1 Kings 4:26 stall is used for horse. Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots. In 2 Chronicles 9:25 , stall means stable. Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots. These passages are reconciled by the definition given above; Solomon had four thousand stables, each containing ten stalls; forty thousand stalls.

5. A bench, form or frame of shelves in the open air, where any thing is exposed to sale. It is curious to observe the stalls of books in the boulevards and other public places in Paris.

6. A small house or shed in which an occupation is carried on; as a butchers stall

7. The seat of a dignified clergyman in the choir.

8. The dignified clergy, out of humility, have called their thrones by the name of stalls. [probably a mistake of the reason.]

Stall [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To dwell; to inhabit.

2. We could not stall together in the world. [Not in use.]

3. To kennel.

4. To be set, as in mire.

5. To be tired of eating, as cattle.

Stall [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To put into a stable; or to keep in a stable; as, to stall an ox.

2. Where king Latinus then his oxen stalld.

3. To install; to place in an office with the customary formalities. [For this, install is now used.]

4. To set; to fix; to plunge into mire so as not to be able to proceed; as, to stall horses or a carriage. [This phrase I have heard in Virginia. In New England, set is used in a like sense.]

Stall [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A stand; a station; a fixed spot; hence, the stand or place where a horse or an ox kept and fed; the division of a stable, or the compartment, for one horse, ox, or other animal.

2. A stable; a place for cattle.

3. A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall.

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

5. A seat in the choir of a church, for one of the officiating clergy. It is inclosed, either wholly or partially, at the back and sides. The stalls are frequently very rich, with canopies and elaborate carving.

6. In the theater, a seat with arms or otherwise partly inclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.

7. The space left by excavation between pillars. See Post and stall, under Post.

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

9. To kennel, as dogs.

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

11. To be tired of eating, as cattle.

Stall [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To put into a stall or stable; to keep in a stall or stalls; as, to stall an ox.

2. To fatten; as, to stall cattle.

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

4. To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix; as, to stall a cart.

5. To forestall; to anticipitate. Having

6. To keep close; to keep secret.

Stall-fed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Fed on dry fodder, or fattened in a stall or stable. [ See Stallfeed .]

Stall-fed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Stall-feed [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To feed and fatten in a stable or on dry fodder; as, to stall-feed an ox. [This word is used in America to distinguish this mode of feeding from grass-feeding.]

Stall-feed [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To feed and fatten in a stall or on dry fodder; as, to stall-feed an ox.

Stall-feeding [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Feeding and fattening in the stable.

Stall-feeding [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Stall-worn [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. STALL-WORN , in Shakespeare, Johnson thinks a mistake for stall-worth, stout.

2. His stall-worn steed the champion stout bestrode. [The word is not in use.]

Stallage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The right of erecting stalls in fairs; or rent paid for a stall.

2. In old books, laystall; dung; compost.

Stallage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The right of erecting a stalls in fairs; rent paid for a stall.

2. Dung of cattle or horses, mixed with straw.

Stallation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Installation. [Not used.]

Stallation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Installation.

Stalled [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Put or kept in a stall; hence, fatted.

Stalled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Staller [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A standard bearer. obtaining

Stalling [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Stabling.

Stalling [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Stallion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A stone horse; a seed horse; or any male horse not castrated, whether kept for mares or not. According to the Welsh, the word signifies a stock horse, a horse intended for raising stock.

Stallion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A male horse not castrated; a male horse kept for breeding.

Stallman [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who keeps a stall for the sale of merchandise, especially books.

Stallmen [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Stallon [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A slip from a plant; a scion; a cutting.

King James Bible KJV Bible

Berean Standard Bible BSB Bible

9 KJV and 14 BSB verses contain “stall”

Judges 5:22

Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.

Then the hooves of horses thundered— the mad galloping of his stallions.

1 Kings 4:26

And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses and 12,000 horses.

2 Chronicles 9:25

And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 32:28

Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.

He also made storehouses for the harvest of grain and new wine and oil, stalls for all kinds of livestock, and pens for the flocks.

Psalms 50:9

I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.

I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens,

Proverbs 15:17

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.

Jeremiah 5:8

They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.

They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.

Jeremiah 47:3

At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;

at the sound of the galloping hooves of stallions, the rumbling of chariots, and the clatter of their wheels. The fathers will not turn back for their sons; their hands will hang limp.

Jeremiah 50:11

Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;

“Because you rejoice, because you sing in triumph— you who plunder My inheritance— because you frolic like a heifer treading grain and neigh like stallions,

Ezekiel 23:20

For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.

Daniel 2:8

The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.

The king replied, “I know for sure that you are stalling for time, because you see that my word is final.

Amos 6:4

That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;

You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.

Habakkuk 3:17

Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:

Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,

Malachi 4:2

But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.

Luke 13:15

The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?

“You hypocrites!” the Lord replied. “Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or donkey from the stall and lead it to water?

Sirach 33:6

A stallion horse is as a mocking friend, he neigheth under every one that sitteth upon him.