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Word entry · 5 letters

stall

Best crossword clue

"Delay or small booth"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /stɔːl/Part of speech verb, nounSorted allstStarts with SEnds with L1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. 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 [...]

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