stalling

stalling

1. present participle and gerund of stall

stalling (countable and uncountable, plural stallings)

1. The act of a person or thing that stalls.

   repeated stallings of the car engine

2. 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.

From stallen (“to park, put aside”) +‎ -ing.

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stalling f (plural stallingen, diminutive stallinkje n)

1. a place where gear can be stored, or where vehicles (especially bicycles) can be parked

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