Main Entry: ²wall

Function: transitive verb

Date: 13th century

1 a : to provide, cover with, or surround with or as if with a wall <wall in the garden> b : to separate by or as if by a wall <walled off half the house>
2 a : immure <walled the monster up within the tomb — E. A. Poe> b : to close (an opening) with or as if with a wall