STALLS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stalls mean? 

• STALLS (noun)
  The noun STALLS has 1 sense:

1. a farm building for housing horses or other livestock

  Familiarity information: STALLS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STALLS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A farm building for housing horses or other livestock

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

horse barn; stable; stalls

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)

 Context examples 

“See to the brave stalls!” cried Alleyne.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Striding through the scattered knots of people who lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook the little man and touched him upon the shoulder.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The groom was away, and I had to send a lad in search of him, while with the help of the livery-man I dragged the curricle from the coach-house and brought the two mares out of their stalls.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Likewise a small house, with stalls for the cows, and thirty-six gallons of beer for the thirsty weather.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One of the largest stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was helping a boy to put up the shutters.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Nay, man, there are finer stalls in Cheapside,” answered Ford, whose father had taken him to London on occasion of one of the Smithfield joustings.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was possible to conceive.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Horse after horse was slung by main force up from the barges, and after kicking and plunging in empty air was dropped into the deep waist of the yellow cog, where rows of stalls stood ready for their safe keeping.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)