Wall

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The side of a level or drift.

II. Wall ·noun The country rock bounding a vein laterally.

III. Wall ·vt To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall.

IV. Wall ·vt To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.

V. Wall ·noun A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.

VI. Wall ·vt To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to Fortify.

VII. Wall ·noun An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder.

VIII. Wall ·noun A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.

IX. Wall ·noun 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.