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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