Dictionary entry

Wall (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Wall (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Walled (�); p. pr. & vb. n.Walling.] 1. To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall. “Seven walled towns of strength.” Shak.

The king of Thebes, Amphion,

That with his singing walled that city. Chaucer.

2. To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify.

The terror of his name that walls us in. Denham.

3. To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.