Word Meaning

wall definition and meaning

n. A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.
n. A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room.
n. A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.
n. An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder.
n. The side of a level or drift.
n. The country rock bounding a vein laterally.
v. t. To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall.
v. t. To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify.
v. t. To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.

Crossword clues for wall

- Barrier to finding legal precedent in retrospective law
- Brick structure
- bulkhead
- Divider of rooms
- Enclose, ... in
- Fence
- Part of building
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