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1. A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.

2. A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.

3. An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam- engine cylinder.

4. The side of a level or drift.

5. The country rock bounding a vein laterally.

6. 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.

Part of Speech: verb transitive

1. To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall.

2. To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify.

3. To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.