stone wall

plural stone walls · alternative stonewall

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 30, 1906, volumes IV (Militia Affairs; Military Schools and Colleges; and Military Parks), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 312

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   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 presence of the past. They offer weft to the warp of the land.

   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.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 225

present singular third person stone walls · participle present stone walling · participle past stone walled · past stone walled

1. alternativeAlternative form of stonewall.