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STALLS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A farm building for housing horses or other livestock

Synonyms:

horse barn; stable; stalls

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("stalls" is a kind of...):

farm building (a building on a farm)

Meronyms (parts of "stalls"):

stall (a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stalls"):

livery stable (stable where horses and vehicles are kept for hire)

Instance hyponyms:

Augean stables ((Greek mythology) the extremely dirty stables that were finally cleaned by Hercules who diverted two rivers through them)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Present simple (third person singular) of the verb stall

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