vaimure

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈveɪmjʊə(ɹ)/

Noun

vaimure (plural vaimures)

1. (obsolete) An exterior wall.
   • 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:

     our company, who fought without any aduantage of couert, the vaimure being throwen downe by the mine

Related terms

• mural
• vauntmure

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vaimure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)