Wall
Definition of Wall
n. | 1. | (Naut.) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale. | | 1. | | | 1. | 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. | | 2. | A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense. | | 3. | An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder. | | 4. | (Mining) The side of a level or drift.Wall newt | (Zool.) the wall lizard. |
| v. t. | 1. | To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall. | | 2. | To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify. | | 3. | To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway. |
Related Words
arch dam, arm, armor, armor-plate, backstop, balustrade, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barbed wire, barrage, barrier, battle, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, block, blockade, bluff, boom, boundary, brattice, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, buffer state, bulkhead, bulkhead in, bulwark, bumper, cage, castellate, cliff, cloison, close in, cofferdam, collision mat, contravallation, coop, corral, crag, crenellate, cushion, dam, defense, diaphragm, dig in, dike, dissepiment, ditch, divide, dividing line, dividing wall, division, earthwork, embankment, embattle, entrench, envelop, escarpment, face, fence off, fences, fender, fortify, garrison, gate, gravity dam, groin, hedge, hedgerow, hem, hoarding, hydraulic-fill dam, immure, interseptum, iron curtain, jam, jetty, leaping weir, levee, logjam, man, man the garrison, mat, midriff, midsection, milldam, mine, moat, mole, mound, pad, pale, paling, palisade, palisades, parapet, paries, party wall, picket, portcullis, precipice, property line, rail, railing, rampart, retaining wall, roadblock, rock-fill dam, scar, scarp, seawall, separate, separation, septulum, septum, set apart, shock pad, shutter dam, steep, stone wall, stop, trellis, vallation, vallum, wall off, weir, wicket dam, work, zigzag fence
|
Browse
Waling Walk Walk-mill walk-off Walk-over Walkable Walker Walking Walking beam Walking crane Walking fern Walking fish Walking gentleman Walking lady Walking leaf Walking papers Walking stick walking straw Walking wheel Walkyr -Wall- Wall barley Wall box Wall creeper Wall cress Wall frame Wall fruit Wall gecko Wall gillyflower Wall knot Wall lizard Wall louse Wall moss Wall newt Wall paper Wall pellitory Wall pennywort Wall pepper Wall pie Wall piece Wall plate
|