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stalling

verbnounattested in dialogue

The act of a person or thing that stalls.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of stallpresent participle and gerund of stall

noun

  1. 1

    The act of a person or thing that stalls.

    repeated stallings of the car engine

  2. 2

    Stabling.

    But hire us some fair chamber for the night, / And stalling for the horses, and return / With victual for these men, and let us know.

Forms

plural
stallings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).