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STONE WALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stone wall mean? 

STONE WALL (noun)
  The noun STONE WALL has 1 sense:

1. a fence built of rough stones; used to separate fieldsplay

  Familiarity information: STONE WALL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


STONE WALL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A fence built of rough stones; used to separate fields

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("stone wall" is a kind of...):

fence; fencing (a barrier that serves to enclose an area)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stone wall"):

dry-stone wall; dry wall (a stone wall made with stones fitted together without mortar)


 Context examples 


It contains in all some twenty acres, quite surrounded by the solid stone wall above mentioned.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It led to nothing; nothing but a view at the end over a low stone wall with high pillars, which seemed intended, in their erection, to give the appearance of an approach to the house, which never had been there.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)



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