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A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot;
a wale. |
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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. |
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A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural,
fortifications, in general; works for defense. |
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An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of
a steam-engine cylinder. |
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The side of a level or drift. |
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The country rock bounding a vein laterally. |
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To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall. |
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To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify. |
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To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway. |
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