# stonewall

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈstəʊnwɔːl/ · frequency rank #29,482

## Definitions
1. An obstruction.
2. A refusal to cooperate.
3. An alcoholic drink popular in colonial America, consisting of apple cider (or sometimes applejack) mixed with rum (or sometimes gin or whisky).
4. Alternative form of stone wall (“wall made of stone”).

## Etymology
From Middle English stonwal, stone wall, stanewalle (“wall made of stone”), from Old English stānweall (“stonewall”), equivalent to stone + wall. The alcoholic drink (sense 3) was perhaps named thus because its effect was as potent as running into a stone wall.

## Easily confused with
- **stoneware** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stonewall-vs-stoneware)

## Common misspellings (12)
`sotnewall`, `sstonewall`, `stnoewall`, `stoenwall`, `stoneawll`, `stonewal`, `stonewlal`, `stonewwall`, `stonnewall`, `stonweall`, `sttonewall`, `tsonewall`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/stonewall