walling
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
walling
- present participle and gerund of wall
Noun[edit]
walling (countable and uncountable, plural wallings)
- A group of walls.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- 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.
- 2014, Carl Schuchhardt, Schliemann's Excavations, page 252:
- “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 […]
- Material used for walls.
- 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.