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in use – of a toilet/bathroom stall (US: occupied; but the opposite is vacant in both); of a telephone line (US & UK also: busy), hence engaged tone (US: busy signal) committed; involved in something betrothed English of or pertaining to England the English language (adj.) the foot-pound-second system of units [citation needed] (UK: Imperial)
box stall (US) See loose box. boxwalking (UK) A behavior exhibited in horses left for long periods in a stall, where they repetitively walk around the confines of the stall. [18] See also weave. brand, branding Marking a horse (or other animal) by burning the skin with a hot iron, or alternatively with a frozen implement (called freeze branding ...
Restroom stall, an enclosure providing privacy to the user of a single toilet in a public restroom; Market stall, a makeshift or mobile structures for selling market goods or serving food; Choir stall, seating in a church for the choir; Stalls (theatre), the ground floor seats in a theatre/cinema (closer to or directly in front of the stage)
Foot-stall The lower part of a pier. (A literal translation of "pedestal.") [48] Formeret The French term for the wall-rib carrying the web or filling-in of a vault. [49] Fractable A coping, often ornamental, on a gable that hides the slope of the roof and becomes a parapet. [50] [51] Fusuma
A small pen for horses (no more than 15–20 feet on any side) is only known as a pen if it lacks any roof or shelter, otherwise, it is called a stall and is part of a stable. A large fenced grazing area of many acres is called a pasture, or, in some cases, rangeland. [citation needed
There are many different types of stables in use today; the American-style stable called a barn, for instance, is a large barn with a door at each end and individual stalls inside or free-standing stables with top and bottom-opening doors. The term "stable" is additionally utilised to denote a business or a collection of animals under the care ...
The original meaning of huckster is a person who sells small articles, either door-to-door or from a stall or small store, like a peddler or hawker. The term probably derives from the Middle English hucc, meaning "to haggle". [1] The word was in use circa 1200 as "huccsteress".
Inside Isambard Kingdom Brunel's wooden train shed at Bristol Temple Meads. A train shed is a building adjacent to a station building where the tracks and platforms of a railway station are covered by a roof.