shield wall

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A defensive formation, used from antiquity through the early Middle Ages, in which soldiers stand shoulder to shoulder with their shields overlapping, creating a continuous barrier against enemy attack. historical
  2. A barrier.
  3. An impenetrable barrier. figuratively
    — Still, in spite of the sensation of being caught between a ‘shield-wall’ of opaque references and a ‘word-hoard’ that is old and strange, such readers are also bound to feel a certain ‘shock of the new’.

词形变化

shield walls plural shieldwall alternative shield-wall alternative

词源

See Old English sċieldweall, with the same meaning.
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