Word.ws English Dictionary

hangingwall

hangingwall is the alternative form of hanging wall.

Meaning of hanging wall

Noun

hanging wall (plural hanging walls)

  1. The section of rock that extends above a diagonal fault line (the corresponding lower section being the footwall).
  2. the upper wall of inclined vein, or that which hangs over the miner's head when working in the vein.

Forms of hangingwall

pluralhangingwalls

Questions about hangingwall

What is hangingwall the alternative form of?
Hangingwall is the alternative form of hanging wall.

Words near hangingwall in the dictionary

  1. hanging, drawing and quartering
  2. hangingflies
  3. hangingfly
  4. hangingly
  5. hangings
  6. hangingwall
  7. hangingwalls
  8. hangiri
  9. hangis
  10. hangle
  11. Hanglem

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hangingwall (page history and authors); hanging wall (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hangingwall.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hangingwall. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.