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Meaning: (idiomatic)Anobstruction.1899July 25,Richard John Seddon(Premier of New Zealand), “Old-age Pensions Act”, inNew Zealand. Parliamentary Debates. Fourth Session, Thirteenth Parliament. Legislative Council and House of Representatives, volumes 107 (Comprising the Period from July 20 to August 10, 1899), Wellington: By authority; John Mackay, government printer,→OCLC,page112, column 2:That was what was causing the Government to hesitate in bringing down the Bill. There would be so many amendments proposed, and so manystonewallserected, that much time would be occupied, and, that being so, he felt he must go on with other business first.1957June,George Langelaan, “The Fly”, inPlayboy, Chicago, Ill.: Playboy Enterprises,→OCLC; republished as “The Fly”, inPaul Kaneand Marie O'Regan, editors,The Mammoth Book of Body Horror, London: Robinson,Constable & Robinson,2012,→ISBN:[…]I suddenly realized that here was the opening I had been searching for and perhaps even the possibility of striking a great blow, a blow perhaps powerful enough to shatter herstonewalldefence, be it sane or insane.1985,Richard Holmes, chapter 1, inFootsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer, London:Hodder & Stoughton,→ISBN; republished London:Penguin Books,1985,→ISBN, part 1 (1964: Travels),page14:Our conversation took place in a sort of no-man's land of irregular French. M. Crèspy's patois and Midi twang battled for meaning against mystonewallclassroom phrases.; (idiomatic)Arefusaltocooperate.1923February 17,William Ferguson Massey(Prime Minister of New Zealand), “Order of Business”, inNew Zealand. Parliamentary Debates. First Session, Twenty-first Parliament. Legislative Council and House of Representatives, volumes 199 (Comprising the Period from February 7 to February 17, 1923), Wellington: By authority; W. A. G. Skinner, government printer,→OCLC,page362, column 1:If it was in order to use the word "stonewalling," I would say yourstonewallhas come to an end; but it is not in order. I would suggest that we bring the proceedings to an end decently, and if the obstruction is not to go on, then I think the proper thing for me to do is to move the ordinary motion,that the House do now adjourn, and let it go without any further talk.2017, Elodia Strain, chapter15, inThe Dating Experiment, Springville, Utah: Sweetwater Books,Cedar Fort, Inc.,→ISBN:"Okay," I said sarcastically, while inside wondering what she was picking up on. / "Anyway," she said, sensing mystonewall, "I was just checking out the Pine Needlers' Facebook Page again, and you guys are killing it. Killing it with kindness as they say."; (idiomatic,historical)AnalcoholicdrinkpopularincolonialAmerica, consisting ofapple cider(or sometimesapplejack) mixed withrum(or sometimesginorwhisky).1868March 17,James McGrigor Allan, “Europeans, and Their Descendants in North America”, inJournal of the Anthropological Society of London, volume VI, London:Trübner & Co., 60,Paternoster Row,→OCLC,page cxxxvi:[W]e are at a loss to "calculate" the ingredients which enter into such mysterious compounds as "apple-jack," "white nose," "stonewall," chain-lightning," "railroad," "rattle-snake," "back-straightener," "corpse-reviver," "moral suasion," "bottomless-pit," "sabbath-calm," etc.2014, John J. Duffy; H. Nicholas Muller, III, “Confused Accounts of Ethan Allen’s Death: Later Accounts Compound the Story”, inInventingEthan Allen, Lebanon, N.H.:University Press of New England,→ISBN,page12:One highly imaginative account claims the throng told stories through the night in drunken outbursts of wild revelry. As if quoting from a house menu of early American alcoholic drinks, rather than reporting an eyewitness account, this version tells us they "guzzled nobly of punch, of flip, and downed the inevitablestonewalls[a mixture of whiskey or rum and cider]."2014, Eva-Sabine Zehelein, “‘Been to Barbados’: Rum(bullion), Race, theGaspéeand the American Revolution”, in Susanne Schmid, Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp, editors,Drink in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries(Perspectives in Economic and Social History;no. 29), London:Pickering & Chatto Publishers,→ISBN; republished Abingdon, Oxon.; New York, N.Y.:Routledge,2016,→ISBN,page144:When members of the Continental Congress met in Philadelphia's City Tavern, they[…]ordered, one must assume, a broad variety of drinks, such as the mimbo (shavings from a sugarloaf, rum and water), the sling (two parts water to one part rum), the bombo (which uses molasses instead of sugar, rum and water), the punch, or the calibogus (spruce beer and rum), a flip, a blackstrap (a mix with molasses), or astonewall(a mix with cider).; Alternative form ofstone wall(“wall made of stone”).1883, Brooksby[pseudonym; Edward Pennell-Elmhirst], “The Bedale”, inThe Hunting Countries of England, Their Facilities, Character, and Requirements. A Guide to Hunting Men, volumes II (parts IV., V., and VI.), London:Horace Cox, "The Field" Office, 346,Strand, W.C.,→OCLC, part IV,page122:The grass looks tempting, and thestonewallsseem built to jump; but the farther west we get, the more rugged become the hillsides and the more broken the beds of the stream, till the scene becomes more akin to the home of the chamois than of the fox. Thestonewallsgrow higher, stronger, and more frequent, as you rise from the low country and get more fully among the sheepwalks.1906, John P. Nicholson, Charles A. Richardson,L[unsford] L[indsay] Lomax, “Report of the Gettysburg National Park Commission”, inAnnual Reports of the War Department for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1906, volumes IV (Milita Affairs; Military Schools and Colleges; and Military Parks), Washington, D.C.:Government Printing Office,→OCLC,page312:Stonewallshave 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”, inCampsteading: Family, Place, and Experience at Squam Lake, New Hampshire, Abingdon, Oxon.; New York, N.Y.:Routledge,→ISBN,page225:In the present day, New England'sstonewallsare 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.[…]Stonewallsboth preserve and evince the structuring presence of the past. They offer weft to the warp of the land.2011December 9, Jack Mitchell, chapter 11, inAngels of the Anasazi, Bloomington, Ind.:AuthorHouse,→ISBN,page140:Some had suggested that they build slopedstonewallsthe entire length of the streambed. Thestonewallswould keep the rushing water in a channel and prevent soil from washing away from the streambed walls.2012, Walter G. Robillard,Clark on Surveying and Boundaries: 2012 Cumulative Supplement[1], 7th edition, Charlottesville, Va.:LexisNexis,→ISBN:There are remnants of astonewallat the elm tree on Burrough Road. The aerial photograph shows the existence of astonewallat the elm tree at least in 1964.
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