Definitions for the word "wall" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
The side of a level or drift.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
The country rock bounding a vein laterally.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. t.
To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. t.
To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. t.
To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
1 continuous vertical narrow structure of usu. Brick or stone, esp. Enclosing or dividing a space or supporting a roof. 2 thing like a wall, esp.: a a steep side of a mountain. B anat. The outermost layer or enclosing membrane etc. Of an organ etc. v. 1 (esp. As walled adj.) Surround with a wall. 2 a (usu. Foll. By up, off) block (a space etc.) With a wall. B (foll. By up) enclose within a sealed space. go to the wall be defeated or pushed aside. Off the wall us slang unorthodox. Up the wall colloq. Crazy or furious. Walls have ears beware of eavesdroppers. wall-less adj. [latin vallum rampart]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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