stonewall
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- An obstruction.
- A refusal to cooperate.
- An alcoholic drink popular in colonial America, consisting of apple cider (or sometimes applejack) mixed with rum (or sometimes gin or whisky).
- Alternative form of stone wall (“wall made of stone”).
- Alternative letter-case form of stonewall (“alcoholic drink”).
Verb
- To obstruct.
- To refuse to answer or cooperate, especially in supplying information.
Adjective
- Certain, definite.
Proper noun
- 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.
- 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.
- Any of several places: A former gold-mining town in California, in the Cuyamaca Mountains.
- Any of several places: A town in Louisiana.
- Any of several places: A town in Mississippi.
- Any of several places: A town in North Carolina.
- Any of several places: A town in Oklahoma.
- Any of several places: An unincorporated community in Texas.
- Any of several places: An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
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