Definitions
deliberately delay an event or action
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“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.”
“He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days [...]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Delay or small booth”5 letters
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