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