The wall of a fortified town.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 10746. The troiens in toures, & on toun walles, Laidon spies specially.
1480. Coventry Leet Bk., 447. Enploye hit to oder reparacions of þe seid town wall.
1548. Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. Acts, ix. 36. They … by nyght let hym downe by a corde of the towne walles, in a basket.
1649. Milton, Eikon., vii. Wks. (1847), 294/1. The king much incensed proclaims him traitor before the town walls.
1843. Penny Cycl., XXVII. 456/1. The town-wall of Worms.
