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名詞

stone wall (複数形 stone walls)

1. A wall made from stone.
   • 1906, John P. Nicholson, Charles A. Richardson, L[unsford] L[indsay] Lomax, “Report of the Gettysburg National Park Commission”, in Annual Reports of the War Department for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1906, volumes IV (Militia Affairs; Military Schools かつ Colleges; かつ Military Parks), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 312:

     Stonewalls have been rebuilt along the piked portion of Taneytown road, along the east end of North Confederate avenue, and along Taneytown road south of Pleasonton avenue.

   • 2010, Derek Pomeroy Brereton, “Appendix 4: The Old Stone Walls of New Hampshire”, in Campsteading: Family, Place, and Experience at Squam Lake, New Hampshire, Abington, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 225:

     In the present day, New England's stonewalls are the lineaments of her former agrarian vitality. They outline what used to be farm roads, fields, barnyards, pens, cellars, dooryards, empoundments, millraces, bridges, culverts, and graves. […] Stonewalls both preserve and evince the structuring presence of the past. They offer weft to the warp of the land.

別の表記

• stonewall

動詞

stone wall (三人称単数 現在形 stone walls, 現在分詞 stone walling, 過去形および過去分詞形 stone walled)

1. Alternative form of stonewall.

名詞

Stonewall (複数形 Stonewalls)

1. Alternative letter-case form of stonewall (“alcoholic drink”)
   • 1974, Ian Keown, Lovers' guide to America, page 85:

     Try one of the inn's specialties from the old days — a Coow Woow (pronounced coo-woo), a 17th-century drink made with ginger brandy and rum on crushed ice; or a Stonewall, which is a century older — gin and applejack over ice cubes.

   • 2001, Bert Osterberg, Silas Cully's Tavern Tales: Stories, Jokes, and Recipes, →ISBN:

     A Stonewall? That's a man's drink, ma'am. It's hard cider—cider wine at about six-and-one-half percent alcohol with rum added. Quite powerful.

固有名詞

Stonewall

1. (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.
   • 1979 June, Gay Community News:

     Stonewall means fighting back.

2. A nickname of Confederate general Thomas Jonathan Jackson.
3. (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).

   the Stonewall attack, a Stonewall setup, a Stonewall formation

4. Any of several places:
   1. A town in Manitoba, Canada.
   2. A former gold-mining town in California, in the Cuyamaca Mountains.
   3. A town in Louisiana.
   4. A town in Mississippi.
   5. A town in North Carolina.
   6. A town in Oklahoma.
   7. An unincorporated community in Texas.
   8. An unincorporated community in West Virginia.

派生語

• Stonewall County

Further reading

• Stonewall riots on Wikipedia.
• Stonewall Jackson on Wikipedia.