stall – English noun declension

English noun forms of stall

Noun: stall
Singularstall
Pluralstalls

Sample Sentences

  • His Fellow ſought what Lodging he could find:
  • At laſt he found a Stall where oxen ſtood,
  • And that he rather choſe than lie abroad. [1700, [John] Dryden, “The Cock and the Fox: Or, The Tale of the Nun’s Priest, from Chaucer”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 231:]
  • Now he goes on, and ſings of fairs and ſhows,
  • For ſtill new fairs before his eyes aroſe.
  • How pedlars' ſtalls with glitt'ring toys are laid,
  • The various fairings of the country maid. [1714, J[ohn] Gay, “Saturday; or, The Flights”, in The Shepherd’s Week. In Six Pastorals, London: […] R. Burleigh […], →OCLC, page 57, lines 71–74:]
  • He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days [...] [1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:]
  • Despite the swift backpedalling of the university, the original notice given to stall operators is suggestive of the potential existence of 'a growing English-speaking elite' that is 'happy to maintain the importance of the English language'. [2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 3:]
  • Rabbit eases from the king-size bed, goes into their bathroom with its rose-colored one-piece Fiberglas tub and shower stall, and urinates into the toilet of a matching rose porcelain. [1990, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest:]
  • In a private rite, a ring is drawn on the ground around a harrow or before an indoor stall. [1989, Edred Thorsson, A Book of Troth, Llewellyn Publications, →ISBN, page 156:]
  • Some Asatruar kindreds call their indoor altars stalls and their outdoor altars harrows. [2006, Selene Silverwind, “Asatruar Tools and Practices”, in Everything you need to know about Paganism, David & Charles, →ISBN, page 117:]
  • Stalli (STAL-i) - Altar. [2006, Mark Puryear, The Nature of Asatru: An Overview of the Ideals and Philosophy of the Indigenous Religion of Northern Europe, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 237:]
  • He had battled like a man, and gotten a man's reward — no silver tea-pots or salvers, with flowery inscriptions setting forth his virtues and the appreciation of a genteel parish; no fat living or stall, for which he never looked, and didn't care; […] [1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:]
  • 1910 [1840], Alexandre Dumas, père, translator not mentioned, Celebrated Crimes: Urbain Grandier, P. F. Collier edition,
  • When he had been some months installed there as a priest-in-charge, he received a prebendal stall, thanks to the same patrons, in the collegiate church of Sainte-Croix.
  • The "super" or watch is passed to a stall, who hurries away, while the "dip" continues on the car. No sign of recognition passes between the members of the mob when at work. [1909, Ignatz Leo Nascher, The Wretches of Povertyville: A Sociological Study of the Bowery, page 204:]

Etymology

From Middle English stall, stalle, from Old English steall (“standing place, position”), from Proto-Germanic *stallaz, from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to place, put, post, stand”). Cognate with French étal, Italian stallo, German Stall, Swedish stall. See: Middle English Nouns 'stall', Old English Nouns 'steall', French Nouns 'étal', Italian Nouns 'stallo', German Nouns 'Stall', Swedish Nouns 'stall'.

Verbs referencing "stall"

Italian Nouns stallo, French Nouns étal, Portuguese Nouns estol.