Definitions
surround with a wall in order to fortify
Word origin
From Middle English wal, from Old English weall (“wall, dike, earthwork, rampart, dam, rocky shore, cliff”), from Proto-West Germanic *wall (“wall, rampart, entrenchment”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, entrenchment, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”).
Used in a sentence
“The town wall was surrounded by a moat.”
“We're adding another wall in this room during the remodeling. The wind blew against the walls of the tent.”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer4 curated clues
01“Room divider”4 letters
02“Vertical divider”4 letters
03“Vertical room surface”4 letters
04“Side of a room”4 letters
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