vbl. sb. [f. STALL v.1 + -ING1.]
† 1. Induction into a stall; installation. Obs.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VIII. 183. Whan he was i-stalled at Lyncoln by þe archedecon, me axede an hors oþer a kow for his stallynge.
c. 1440. Alphabet of Tales, 60. This archedekyn was made bisshopp and made a grete feste at his stallyng.
c. 1535. in Gutch, Coll. Cur. (1781), I. 207. Unto the first stalling of the Dean and Canons in the said College.
† 2. The action of agreeing for the payment of a debt by instalments, or of fixing dates for payment; also, an instance of this. (See STALL v.1 4.) Obs.
1525. St. Papers Hen. VIII., VI. 462. They be also sufficiently instructed, howe they shal ordre themself for stalling of days for part of the money due by the Emperour.
1563. Repert. City Lond. XV. f. 258, in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1900), July, 451. My lord mayor & … justices … shall … meete here for the stallynge & ratynge of the wages of artyficers & laborers according to the Acte.
a. 1631. Donne, Serm., Wks. 1839, V. 522. Yea it is not here only that they shall perish, in the future; that were a reprieve; it were a stalling of a debt.
c. 1640. J. Smyth, Lives Berkeleys (1883), I. 130. Of an other dett … [he] could obtayne noe more, then the stallenge thereof to be payd by twenty marks a yeare.
3. The action or process of furnishing (a place) with stalls as seats; also concr., stall-work.
c. 1515. in Willis & Clark, Cambridge (1886), I. 482. The said werk is … accomplished, except the pavyng, and stallyng and glasyng of the same.
1519. in Fabric Rolls York Minster (Surtees), 272. Our wher stallyng is defectiff in gronsoll. Our wher pavyng is fawty in stone.
4. Stall-accommodation (of or for an animal).
1535. Coverdale, Isa. lxv. 10. Saron shalbe a shepefolde, and the valley of Achor shal geue stallinge for the catell of my people, that feare me.
1600. Shaks., A. Y. L., I. i. 11. Call you that keeping for a gentleman of my birth, that differs not from the stalling of an Oxe?
1859. Tennyson, Geraint & Enid, 238. But hire us some fair chamber for the night, And stalling for the horses.
