stonewall

IPA: stˈoʊnwɔɫ

Root Word: Stonewall

noun

  • (historical) A series of riots in 1969 New York City, beginning with the patrons of the gay bar "The Stonewall Inn" resisting police arrest, which marked the beginning of the militant gay rights movement.
  • A nickname of Confederate general Thomas Jonathan Jackson.
  • (chess) A formation in chess (a variation of the Queen's Pawn Game) in which white plays pawns to d4 and several other positions, requiring black to react energetically (see Stonewall Attack).
  • Any of several places:
  • A town in Manitoba, Canada.
  • A former gold-mining town in California, in the Cuyamaca Mountains.
  • A town in Louisiana.
  • A town in Mississippi.
  • A town in North Carolina.
  • A town in Oklahoma.
  • An unincorporated community in Texas.
  • An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
  • (idiomatic) An obstruction.
  • (idiomatic) A refusal to cooperate.
  • (idiomatic, historical) An alcoholic drink popular in colonial America, consisting of apple cider (or sometimes applejack) mixed with rum (or sometimes gin or whisky).
  • Alternative letter-case form of stonewall (“alcoholic drink”) [(idiomatic) An obstruction.]
  • Alternative form of stone wall (“wall made of stone”). [A wall made from stone.]

verb

  • (transitive) To obstruct.
  • (transitive, intransitive, informal) To refuse to answer or cooperate, especially in supplying information.

adjective

  • (Britain, idiomatic) Certain, definite.

stone wall

IPA: stˈoʊnwˈɔɫ

noun

  • A wall made from stone.

verb

  • Alternative form of stonewall. [(transitive) To obstruct.]
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Examples of "stonewall" in Sentences

    Examples of "stone-wall" in Sentences

    • He should be safe in the stone-wall chamber, for a little while at least.
    • Worse still, the heavy adobe could bring the original stone-wall stubs toppling down.
    • In Britain he built (122–127) 80 miles of road, ditches, and stone-wall from the Tyne to the Solway.
    • A little farther on, was a strong stone-wall, not high, but very thick, extending in the same manner.
    • He knows the maladministration will resit and stone-wall it … anything to drag out the case as long as possible.
    • The GOP has made their decision, and that is to stone-wall for two more years. hoping to stymie any meaningful economic recovery, in an attempt to sweep back into power.
    • Then when she became McCain's running mate, she reversed course and started stone-walling (and told her people to stone-wall) in an obvious attempt to run the clock out between now and the November election.
    • The post also outlines how alarmist control of peer-review journals was used to stone-wall these requirements by posting data in obscure places with no announcement, releasing incomplete data, providing no explaination for data encoding, and using obsolete formats.
    • Politicians fixate on plans to alleviate poverty and at the same time create the very infrastructures, policies and institutions to enhance corrupt opportunities ... actual honesty gains zero ratings in recruitment and appointments where 'palanka' and the benefit of 'padrinos' eliminates any concern for actual job qualifications or competence in government officials who will consequently stone-wall any effort to cause waves or disturb their comfortable feather-bedding.

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