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walling

walling is the present participle and gerund of wall.

Noun

walling (countable and uncountable, plural wallings)

  1. A group of walls.
    • Nor was this all; seeing something projecting through the soil at the bottom of the bared patch of walling, I removed the loose earth with my hands, and revealed a huge stone ring, a foot or more in diameter, and about three inches thick.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
    • “All three,” says Dr. Schliemann, “were unusually large, and appeared to have been forced into the small space of only 5 feet 6 inches, left for them between the inner wallings […]2014, Carl Schuchhardt, Schliemann's Excavations, page 252
  2. Material used for walls.
  3. A method of torture in which a person's neck is encircled by a collar, which is then used to slam the person against a wall.

Meaning of wall

Verb (1)

wall (third-person singular simple present walls, present participle walling, simple past and past participle walled)

  1. (transitive) To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls.
    • He walled the study with books.
  2. (slang) To use a wallhack.
  3. (slang, transitive) To wallbang.
    • I walled her. She's low [health].

Verb (2)

wall (third-person singular simple present walls, present participle walling, simple past and past participle walled)

  1. To boil.
  2. To well, as water; spring.

Verb (3)

wall (third-person singular simple present walls, present participle walling, simple past and past participle walled)

  1. (transitive) To make a wall knot on the end of (a rope).

See all 44 meanings of wall

Proper noun capitalized: Walling

Walling (plural Wallings)

  1. A surname.

Forms of walling

Noun
pluralwallings
Proper noun
pluralWallings

Phrases with walling

Questions about walling

What does walling mean?
Walling means a group of walls.
What is walling the present participle and gerund of?
Walling is the present participle and gerund of wall.
What part of speech is walling?
Walling can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of walling?
The plural of walling is wallings.

Words near walling in the dictionary

  1. Wallick
  2. Wallicks
  3. wallicoside
  4. wallies
  5. Wallin
  6. walling
  7. walling in
  8. walling off
  9. walling up
  10. walling wax
  11. Wallingantism

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