English Dictionary

A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.
Source : opted (170826)  - auto

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.
Source : opted (170827)  - auto

A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.
Source : opted (170828)  - auto

An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder.
Source : opted (170829)  - auto

The side of a level or drift.
Source : opted (170830)  - auto

The country rock bounding a vein laterally.
Source : opted (170831)  - auto

To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall.
Source : opted (170834)  - auto

To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify.
Source : opted (170835)  - auto

To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.
Source : opted (170836)  - auto