a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep | an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure |
a plot of ground in which plants are growing | an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes |
a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track | a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden) |
the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc. | a layer of material that encloses space |
single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance | (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure |
a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit | anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect |
a depression forming the ground under a body of water | a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain) |
(geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock) | a difficult or awkward situation |