See Also: wall(1)(dictionary)
fly-on-the-wall(dictionary)
dry wall(dictionary)
wall(encyclopedia)
WALL(law)
wall-eye(dictionary)
wall(6)(dictionary)
wall(5)(dictionary)
wall(3)(dictionary)
wall(2)(dictionary)

wall(5) (iou)



wall verb2.

I. verb trans.
Provide, surround, or fortify with or as with a wall or walls. Also foll. by about, round (about). OE.
Shakespeare Richard II This flesh which walls about our life. Dickens The House of Correction..is not walled, like other prisons. Z. Grey A shady..glade, partly walled by..masses of upreared rocks.
b. Build (up) the wall or walls of. (lit. & fig.) LME.
Enclose with or as with a wall (foll. by in); shut off or out, divide, (as) with a wall. OE.
H. Brooke A gravel-walk that was walled in on the left hand. J. Tyndall A space for cooking walled off from the sleeping-room. fig.: C. Ness A weekly sabbath walls in our wild natures.
b. Line the walls of (a room, gallery, etc.). M19.
Lytton The room was walled from..floor to..roof with books.
Close or block up (a gate, window, etc.) with masonry. Usu. foll. by up. E16.
Shut up (a person or thing) within walls; entomb in a wall, immure. Usu. foll. by up. M16.
E. A. Poe I had walled the monster up within the tomb!
Build (stone) into a wall. rare. L18.
II. verb intrans.
Build a wall or walls. L16.
waller noun3 a person who builds walls ME.