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box stall

box stall noun: an enclosed stall with walls, within which the animal can move freely.

box stall: an enclosed stall with walls, within which the animal can move freely
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Noun

box stall (plural box stalls)

  1. An enclosed stall with walls, within which the animal can move freely.
    • Then he made out a black horse lying down in the centre of a box stall. The animal plunged at once to its feet, and crowding as far as possible away against the wall, turned its head and stared at them with flashing eyes.1920, Max Brand, chapter 21, in The Night Horseman, A.L. Burt Company, page 188

Forms of box stall

pluralbox stalls

Questions about box stall

What does box stall mean?
Box stall means an enclosed stall with walls, within which the animal can move freely.
What part of speech is box stall?
Box stall is a noun.
What is the plural of box stall?
The plural of box stall is box stalls.

Words near box stall in the dictionary

  1. box splits
  2. box spring
  3. box springs
  4. box squat
  5. box squats
  6. box stall
  7. box stalls
  8. box standard
  9. box standards
  10. box stitch
  11. box stitches

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