the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
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Wall
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(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.
(2):
(n.) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.
(3):
(v. t.) To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify.
(4):
(n.) A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.
(5):
(n.) An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder.
(6):
(n.) The side of a level or drift.
(7):
(n.) The country rock bounding a vein laterally.
(8):
(v. t.) To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall.
(9):
(v. t.) To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Wall'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/w/wall.html. 1828.
