Meaning of shield wall | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

“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’.”

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