Stone Wall

Definition: Stone Wall

Stone Wall

Noun

1. A fence built of rough stones; used to separate fields.

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Mining

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Failure

Limp, halt, hobble, titubate; fall, tumble; lose one's balance; fall to the ground, fall between two stools; flounder, falter, stick in the mud, run aground, split upon a rock; beat one's head against a stone wall, run one's head against a stone wall, knock one's head against a stone wall, dash one's head against a stone wall; break one's back; break down, sink, drown, founder, have the ground cut from under one; get into trouble, get into a mess, get into a scrape; come to grief; (adversity); go to the wall, go to the dogs, go to pot; lick the dust, bite the dust; be defeated; have the worst of it, lose the day, come off second best, lose; fall a prey to; succumb; (submit); not have a leg to stand on.

Prison

Bolt, deadbolt, bar, lock, police lock, combination lock, padlock, rail, wall, stone wall; paling, palisade; fence, picket fence, barbed wire fence, Cyclone fence, stockade fence, chain-link fence; barrier, barricade.

Unskillfulness

Not know what one is about, not know one's own interest, not know on which side one's bread is buttered; stand in one's own light, quarrel with one's bread and butter, throw a stone in one's own garden, kill the goose which lays the golden eggs, pay dear for one's whistle, cut one's own throat, bum one's fingers; knock one's head against a stone wall, beat one's head against a stone wall; fall into a trap, catch a Tartar, bring the house about one's ears; have too many eggs in one basket (imprudent), have too many irons in the fire.

Crosswords: Stone Wall

Near the old stone wall (Halfway To Memphis; performing artist: Sammy Hagar)

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Books

• In the Company of Stone: The Art of the Stone Wall (reference)

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Unidentified gateway in stone wall with latticed arch and hanging lantern. Perspective sketch study elevations and plan. Credit: Library of Congress.

Man and woman sitting together on a stone wall. Credit: Library of Congress.

If you can't go thru a stone wall. Credit: Library of Congress.

Stone wall, rear of Fredericksburg with rebel dead, May 3d, 1863. Credit: Library of Congress.

William Remington, three-quarter length portrait, seated on stone wall, facing slightly right, with his children, Bruce, and Galeyn, while hiking near Jacksonville, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress.

Occupational portrait of an unidentified man, full-length, facing front, with a long handled tool, in front of machinery and a stone wall. Credit: Library of Congress.

Battle of Winchester, decisive charge upon the rebels at the stone wall. Credit: Library of Congress.

Home of Mrs. Elon H. Hooker, Greenwich, Connecticut with vine-covered exterior and stone wall. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ludwig Baumann, business in Newark, New Jersey. Stone wall and column. Credit: Library of Congress.

Millwood, Virginia and Boyce, Virginia. Stone wall near Boyce, Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Expression using "stone wall": dry stone wall. Additional references.

Ending with "stone wall": dry-stone wall.

Chinese 

駁岸 (a low stone wall built along the water's edge to protect an embankment, revetment). (various references)

Danish

stenmur (dry stone wall). (various references)

Dutch

gestapelde muur (dry stone wall). (various references)

Finnish

kivimuuri (dry stone wall). (various references)

French

murger (dry stone wall). (various references)

German

Trockenmauer (dry stone wall). (various references)

Greek 

πεζούλα (parapet). (various references)

Italian

murodi cinta (dry stone wall). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

石垣 , 石塀 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いしがき, いしべい. (various references)

Manx

boalley cloaie (fell dyke). (various references)

Maya

koot. (various references)

Pig Latin

onestay allway

Portuguese

muro de pedras. (various references)

Spanish

muro en seco (dry stone wall). (various references)

Swedish

torr mur (dry laid masonry, dry stone masonry, dry stone wall), kallmur (dry laid masonry, dry stone masonry, dry stone wall). (various references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: stonewall.

-2 letters: etalons, stollen, swollen, tallows, tolanes, wallets.

-3 letters: allots, allows, anoles, atolls, atones, etalon, lanose, latens, lentos, llanos, lowest, osteal, owlets, sallet, sallow, santol, solate, stella, stolen, tallow, talons, telson, tolane, tolans, towels, wallet, weason.

-4 letters: aeons, allot, allow, aloes, alone, altos, anole, antes, atoll, atone, awols, elans, enols, enows, etnas, lanes, laten, lawns.

+1 letter: stonewalls.

+2 letters: stonewalled, stonewaller.

+3 letters: stonewallers, stonewalling, wollastonite.

+4 letters: wollastonites.

+5 letters: blanketflowers.