Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a defect in color or form: said of the eye.
  • Provided with a wall or walls; inclosed or fortified with a wall; fortified.
  • In heraldry:
  • Accompanied by the appearance of stone masonry.
  • Covered with lines representing or indicating stone masonry: noting the field or an ordinary.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Pertaining a wall.
  • adjective Pertaining to something which has been placed into a wall, i.e., immured.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of wall.

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Examples

  • The skins are thin walled and have a great crusty bottom.

    NJ Dining: Petite Soochow (UPDATED) 2010

  • They yearn for the real stuff, taxi holdups and pickpockets on the Mexico City metro, twisted iron bars and neighborhood break-ins, even in walled enclaves.

    Crime may pay 2006

  • But there are many more places where the advertisers and publishers are contained in walled gardens.

    A truly open ad marketplace « BuzzMachine 2005

  • Except in the Aids, as they called the walled-m sacred area, a reek of human waste would hang everywhere.

    See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005

  • This type of house first appeared in walled European towns in the Middle Ages, and it survived in various forms for the next 500 years.

    Living Smaller 1991

  • This type of house first appeared in walled European towns in the Middle Ages, and it survived in various forms for the next 500 years.

    Living Smaller 1991

  • And then a soft wind blew through the little room – a wind like the wind that breathes softly in walled gardens and shakes down the rose-leaves on sparkling summer mornings.

    The House of Arden Edith 1923

  • But there was a difference between the houses of villages (which, being connected with agriculture, were treated as parts of the land) and houses possessed by trading people or foreigners in walled towns, which could only be redeemed within the year after the sale; if not then redeemed, these did not revert to the former owner at the Jubilee.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Yes | No | Report from 4trx300 wrote 1 week 4 hours ago could possibly be thin walled brass swelling in the chamber. iv had the same problem with an h and r single shot in 270, shot very well and i was lucky enough to have never needed a second shot while hunting with it. try a different brand of shell and see if that helps. i believe they were remington's i was using.

    Anybody ever have any problems with H&R rifles not ejecting spent cartridges. 2010

  • Yes | No | Report from 4trx300 wrote 1 week 4 hours ago could possibly be thin walled brass swelling in the chamber. iv had the same problem with an h and r single shot in 270, shot very well and i was lucky enough to have never needed a second shot while hunting with it. try a different brand of shell and see if that helps. i believe they were remington's i was using.

    Anybody ever have any problems with H&R rifles not ejecting spent cartridges. 2010

  • You could only visit a select number of information resources on the likes of AOL; they were “walled gardens,” to use a term that was coined sometime in the mid-1990s.

    1993: Mosaic Launches and the Web is Set Free 2023

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