Stall | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Stall, n.

noun

n. [A-S. steall, stall, a place, seat, or station, a stable, state, condition, D. & O. H. Ger. stal, N. H. Ger. & Sw. stall, Icel. stallr, Dan. stalda, from the root stal, Skr. sthal, to stand, whence O. H. Ger. stallan, stellan, N. H. Ger. stellen, to place.]

Sense 1. 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.

Sense 2. A stable; a place for cattle.

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

Sense 3. A small apartment or slight shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher’s stall; a book-stall.

Sense 4. The seat of an ecclesiastical dignitary in the choir of a church.

The dignified clergy, out of humility, have called their thrones by the name of stalls. Warburton.

Stall, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. STALLED; p. pr. & vb. n. STALLING.]

To put into a stall or stable; to keep in a stable; as, to stall an ox. “Where King Latinus then his oxen stalled.” Dryden.
To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install. [Obs.]
To plunge into mire so as not to be able to proceed; to set; to fix; as, to stall horses or a carriage.
To forestall. [Obs.] Massinger.

Stall, v. i.

verbintransitive

1. To dwell; to inhabit. [Obs.] We could not stall together in the world. Shak.

To kennel, as dogs. Johnson.
To be set, as in mire.
To be tired of eating, as cattle.