noun

• (countable) A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed.
• (countable) A small open-fronted shop, for example in a market, food court, etc.
  "He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days [...]"
• (countable) A seat in a theatre close to and (about) level with the stage; traditionally, a seat with arms, or otherwise partly enclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.
• (Germanic paganism) An Heathen altar, typically an indoor one, as contrasted with a more substantial outdoor harrow.
  "In a private rite, a ring is drawn on the ground around a harrow or before an indoor stall."

verb

• (transitive) To put (an animal, etc.) in a stall.
  "to stall an ox"
• (obsolete) To live in, or as if in, a stall; to dwell.
  "I must perforce Haue ſhewne to thee ſuch a declining day, Or looke on thine: we could not ſtall together In the whole world."

noun

• (aeronautics) Loss of lift due to an airfoil's critical angle of attack being exceeded, normally occurring due to low airspeed.
  "The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the asymmetric stall and the ensuing roll of the aircraft because of the uncommanded retraction of the left wing outboard leading edge slats and the loss of stall warning and slat disagreement indication systems resulting from maintenance-induced damage leading to the separation of the No. 1 engine and pylon assembly at a critical point during takeoff. The separation resulted from damage by improper maintenance procedures which led to failure of the pylon structure."

verb

• (transitive) To employ delaying tactics against.
  "He stalled the creditors as long as he could."
• (intransitive) To employ delaying tactics; to stall for time.
  "Soon it became clear that she was stalling to give him time to get away."
• (intransitive) To come to a standstill.
  "[...] the 4-4-0 unhappily stalled after a stop on Reading Old Bank with its eight-coach load and the Reading Up Line pilot, a "Hall", had to bank the train into Reading General."
• (transitive) To cause to stop making progress; to hinder; to slow down; to delay or forestall.
  "In Barnhouse's mind, their screwed-up childhoods have left homosexuals stalled at an adolescent point in the normal progression of psycho-social development. Unable to attain the "normal" gender identification and separation from mother, they are forced to lead incomplete lives and thus remain "immature.""