Noun

(en noun)

A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.

A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.

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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}

Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.

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*, chapter=7

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=14 citation , passage=Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall . Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.}}

A point of desperation.

A point of defeat or extinction.

An impediment to free movement.

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A type of butterfly (Lasiommata megera ).

A barrier.

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A barrier to vision.

Something with the apparent solidity and dimensions of a building wall.

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A divisive or containing structure in an organ or cavity.

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*:The epidermal cells of the capsule wall of Jubulopsis'', with nodose "trigones" at the angles, are very reminiscent of what one finds in ''Frullania spp.

(lb) A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction. Also called a chandelier.

(lb) A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.

*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 23, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC

, title= Blackburn 2-0 West Brom , passage=Blackburn were the recipients of another dose of fortune when from another Thomas pass Odemwingie was brought down by Jones inside the penalty area, but referee Mark Clattenburg awarded a free-kick which Chris Brunt slammed into the wall .}}

(lb) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.

Noun

(en noun)

(chiefly, dialectal) A spring of water.

Noun

(en noun)

(nautical) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic) Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.

(Christianity) A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church.

(Christianity) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice.

(Christianity) A pallium (woollen vestment in Roman Catholicism).

* Fuller

About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, — the one for London, the other for York.

(heraldiccharge) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.

A heavy canvas, especially one laid over a coffin or tomb.

* 1942 , Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon , Canongate (2006), page 150:

Thirty years or so later, a woman was put to death for stealing the purple pall from his sarcophagus, a strange, crazy crime,

An outer garment; a cloak or mantle.

* Shakespeare

His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold.

(obsolete) nausea

(Shaftesbury)

(senseid) A feeling of gloom.

A pall came over the crowd when the fourth goal was scored.

The early election results cast a pall over what was supposed to be a celebration.