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stone wall

Syllables: stone·wallUK/ˈstəʊnwɔːl//ˈstoʊnwɔl/

stone wall noun: a wall made from stone. Also the alternative form of stonewall.

Noun

stone wall (plural stone walls)

  1. A wall made from stone.
    • Stonewalls have been rebuilt along the piked portion of Taneytown road, along the east end of North Confederate avenue, and along Taneytown road south of Pleasonton avenue.1906, John P. Nicholson, Charles A. Richardson, L[unsford] L[indsay] Lomax, “Report of the Gettysburg National Park Commission”, in Annual Reports of the War Department for the Fiscal Year Ended June...
    • In the present day, New England's stonewalls are the lineaments of her former agrarian vitality. They outline what used to be farm roads, fields, barnyards, pens, cellars, dooryards, empoundments, millraces, bridges, culverts, and graves. […] Stonewalls both preserve and evince the structuring...2010, Derek Pomeroy Brereton, “Appendix 4: The Old Stone Walls of New Hampshire”, in Campsteading: Family, Place, and Experience at Squam Lake, New Hampshire, Abington, Oxon.; New York, N.Y....

Also used as

stone wall is also the alternative form of stonewall.

Forms of stone wall

Noun
pluralstone walls
alternative formstonewall
Verb
third-person singular presentstone walls
present participlestone walling
past participlestone walled
paststone walled

Questions about stone wall

What does stone wall mean?
Stone wall means a wall made from stone.
What part of speech is stone wall?
Stone wall is a noun.
How do you pronounce stone wall?
Stone wall is pronounced /ˈstəʊnwɔːl/ (UK).
What is the plural of stone wall?
The plural of stone wall is stone walls.

Words near stone wall in the dictionary

  1. stone subs
  2. stone tape theory
  3. stone the crows
  4. Stone Town
  5. stone veneer
  6. stone wall
  7. stone walled
  8. stone walling
  9. stone walls
  10. Stone with Bishopstone and Hartwell
  11. stone xylophone

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