An archaic or dialectal verb meaning to place, set, or establish something; to install or stall a horse.
From Old French 'estaler' or 'estalir,' related to 'stall.' The word appears in Middle English with meanings related to placing something in a stall or establishing its position.
This word is basically dead in modern English, but it shows the path 'stall' took through history—from the physical pen for a horse to the idea of 'stalling' someone or something, all from the same root!
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