Meaning

3 senses

  1. (idiomatic)An obstruction.

  2. (idiomatic)A refusal to cooperate.

  3. (historical, idiomatic)An alcoholic drink popular in colonial America, consisting of apple cider (or sometimes applejack) mixed with rum (or sometimes gin or whisky).

Examples

4 sentences

  1. We've stonewalled them, and they've got nothing.

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  2. Stonewall is a gay bar.

    deDas Stonewall Inn ist eine Gay-Bar.

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  3. The trial lawyers couldn't get past the Mafia leader's stonewalling tactics.

    ruАдвокаты первой инстанции не смогли пробиться через тактику блокирования главы мафии.

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  4. Nixon tried to stonewall through Watergate by ignoring it, but it didn't work.

    deNixon versuchte Watergate durch Ignorieren auszusitzen, aber es funktionierte nicht.

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

From Middle English stonwal, stone wall, stanewalle (“wall made of stone”), from Old Engli

From Middle English stonwal, stone wall, stanewalle (“wall made of stone”), from Old English stānweall (“stonewall”), equivalent to stone + wall. The alcoholic drink (sense 3) was perhaps named thus because its effect was as potent as running into a stone wall.

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Forms

plural: stonewalls
Singularstonewall
Pluralstonewalls

regular

See also

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