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wall-sided

wall-sided adjective: having sides nearly perpendicular, rather than flaring or tumbling home.

Adjective

wall-sided (comparative more wall-sided, superlative most wall-sided)

  1. Having sides nearly perpendicular, rather than flaring or tumbling home.
    • She was a good, substantial ship, not quite so long as the Alert, and wall-sided and kettle-bottomed, after the latest fashion of south-shore cotton and sugar wagons; strong, too, and tight, and a good average sailor, but with no pretensions to beauty, and nothing in the style of a “crack ship.”1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC
    • We greet the clippers wing-and-wing that race the Southern wool;
      We warn the crawling cargo-tanks of Bremen, Leith, and Hull;
      To each and all our equal lamp at peril of the sea—
      The white wall-sided warships or the whalers of Dundee!1909, Rudyard Kipling, “The Coastwise Lights”, in A Song of the English
  2. Having perpendicular sides.
    • On the other side rose this mighty wall-sided peak, too steep for snow, black as night, with sharp ridges and pointed summit.1871, Edward Whymper, Scrambles amongst the Alps

Forms of wall-sided

comparativemore wall-sided
superlativemost wall-sided

Questions about wall-sided

What does wall-sided mean?
Wall-sided means having sides nearly perpendicular, rather than flaring or tumbling home.
What part of speech is wall-sided?
Wall-sided is an adjective.

Words near wall-sided in the dictionary

  1. wall-peckers
  2. wall-rocket
  3. wall-rockets
  4. wall-shade
  5. wall-shades
  6. wall-sided
  7. wall-slam
  8. wall-slammed
  9. wall-slamming
  10. wall-slams
  11. Wall-Sun-Sun prime

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