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Hadrian's defense
Answer for the clue "Hadrian's defense ", 4 letters:
wall
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Word definitions for wall in dictionaries
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Word definitions in WordNet
v. surround with a wall in order to fortify [syn: palisade , fence , fence in , surround ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wall \Wall\, n. [AS. weall, from L. vallum a wall, vallus a stake, pale, palisade; akin to Gr. ? a nail. Cf. Interval .] A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent ...
Usage examples of wall.
He was almost convinced that reducing a tree to lumber expunged whatever might be abiding within when he saw the long, hooked tongue emerge from the wall behind the bed.
He rested her back against the wall, his forehead pressed to hers, struggling to regain his ability to breathe.
One wall of the ablutions area changed miraculously into a mirror and she saw them both reflected in it.
From the walls of the castillo, it could be seen that all the town was aboil as the four galleons sailed in from the sea.
As she leaned against the wall of the house, the rough texture of the red brick gently abraded her bare shoulders.
She knew she could not scale a blank seven-foot wall fast enough to save herself, especially not with one stingingly abraded hand, so she studied the trees as she ran.
The hymen was not intact, and abrasions along the vaginal wall were visible.
Panting, Abrim tried to brace himself against the smooth tunnel wall, but the low-friction coating defeated him and he began to slide slowly backward.
It was found that the womb had been ruptured and the child killed, for in several days it was delivered in a putrid mass, partly through the natural passage and partly through an abscess opening in the abdominal wall.
Desgranges gives a case of a fish-spine in the abdominal cavity, and ten years afterward it ulcerated through an abscess in the abdominal wall.
Land Rovers screaming around the desert, men in black kit abseiling down embassy walls, or free fallers with all the kit on, leaping into the night.
Every external wall or enclosing wall of habitable rooms or their appurtenances or cellars which abuts against the earth shall be protected by materials impervious to moisture to the satisfaction of the district surveyor.
The enlarged flyby surveillance photograph hanging on the wall showed in grainy black and white the cabin and its grounds, including the wide, elevated back porch on which Glenn Abies could be seen standing, small but unmistakable, giving the helicopter the finger.
He saw one young Abies girl, then another, seated side by side on the floor, in the shadows between the wooden end-legs of a broad workbench and the far-left wall.
The gusts grew stronger, throwing Acies up against the wall and holding him there.