stalling
See also: Stalling
English edit
Verb edit
stalling
- present participle and gerund of stall
Noun edit
stalling (countable and uncountable, plural stallings)
- The act of a person or thing that stalls.
- repeated stallings of the car engine
- Stabling.
- 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 58:
- 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.
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Etymology edit
From stallen (“to park, put aside”) + -ing.
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Noun edit
stalling f (plural stallingen, diminutive stallinkje n)