Word info Synonyms

stone wall

Speech parts

1. stone wall - Noun

2. stone wall - Verb

Meaning

stone wall (plural stone walls)

A wall made from stone.

stone wall (third-person singular simple present stone walls, present participle stone walling, simple past and past participle stone walled)

Alternative form of stonewall.

stone-wall

Alternative spelling of stone wall

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stone-wall

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Examples

After we’d crossed the river and taken up a defensive position behind a low stone wall, I had my section dig in and we all had our heads well down.” Source: Internet

After you leave Edzell, you pass through a wood and a few fields before crossing an old stone bridge and there, on your left, is a little blue door in a stone wall. Source: Internet

Additionally, Longstreet positioned his men behind a stone wall at the foot of Marye's Heights and held off fourteen assaults by Union forces. Source: Internet

Approximately 3,000 Confederate Georgians under Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb were lined up in multiple ranks behind the stone wall for about 600 yards, and another 3,000 were atop the slope behind it, along with their artillery. Source: Internet

A Union party under flag of truce was allowed to approach ostensibly to collect the wounded, but while close to the stone wall, they were able to observe how sparsely the Confederate line was manned. Source: Internet

Brig. Gen. Barnard Elliott Bee, Jr. exhorted his own troops to re-form by shouting, "There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. Source: Internet

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