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Definition & Synonyms
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• Wall
- (n.) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.
- (n.) A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.
- (v. t.) To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.
- (n.) The side of a level or drift.
- (n.) An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder.
- (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.) 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.
Synonyms:
Bulwark, Fence, Palisade, Paries, Rampart, Surround,
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• Wallhick
- (n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dryobates minor).
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• Wallflower
- (n.) In Australia, the desert poison bush (Gastrolobium grandiflorum); -- called also native wallflower.
- (n.) A perennial, cruciferous plant (Cheiranthus Cheiri), with sweet-scented flowers varying in color from yellow to orange and deep red. In Europe it very common on old walls.
- (n.) A lady at a ball, who, either from choice, or because not asked to dance, remains a spectator.
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