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      wall
      noun
      A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
      A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
      Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
      A point of desperation.
      A point of defeat or extinction.
      An impediment to free movement.
      The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
      (often in combination) A barrier.
      Something with the apparent solidity, opacity, or dimensions of a building wall.
      (figurative) A means of defence or security.
      One of the vertical sides of a container.
      (anatomy, zoology, botany) A dividing or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
      A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
      (US, slang, medicine) A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
      (soccer) A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
      (roller derby) Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
      (mining) Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
      (Internet) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
      (roleplaying games) A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
      (mahjong) Face-down tiles arranged in stacked rows from which players draw new tiles.
      (slang, seduction community, chiefly definite) The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
      (cycling) A very steep slope.
      (nautical) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
      (history, slang) the Berlin Wall.
      (slang) the Trump Wall.
      (slang) the Great Wall of China.
      (astronomy) A Chinese constellation located near Pegasus and Andromeda, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the larger Black Turtle.
      A village in Gwinear-Gwithian parish, south-west Cornwall (OS grid ref SW6036).
      A village and civil parish in south Northumberland (OS grid ref NY9169); part of Hadrian's Wall is in the parish.
      A village and civil parish in the City of Lichfield district, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SK0906).
      A place in the United States:
      A township in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
      A borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
      A town in Pennington County, South Dakota.
      An unincorporated community in Tom Green County, Texas.
      A surname.
      A place in England:
      (chiefly dialectal) A spring of water.
      (historical) The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian; said to be taken or given.
      verb
      To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls.
      (video games, slang) To use a wallhack.
      (video games, slang, transitive) To wallbang.
      To boil.
      To well, as water; spring.
      (transitive, nautical) To make a wall knot on the end of (a rope).
      Roots
      vallumwall- · Latin · rampart, wall
      Synonyms for wall
      pariesnvallationnfencenrampartnpalisadenbulwarknrailingnbarriernparapetnbalustraden
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