Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the lateral walls of an abutment, forming a support and protection to it.
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Examples
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The monotony of the low-lying, exhaust-battered shrubbery lined either side as the same wing-wall one could find anywhere on the continent.
Excerpt from Crackle 2010
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I led them, and two other patrolmen who joined us, to the shelter of my wing-wall.
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(_Anta_ = a flat pilaster decorating the end of a wing-wall and treated with a base and capital usually differing from those of the adjacent columns.)
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890
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The next thing was to pass along the face of the wing-wall to the point where it joined the boundary-wall of the courtyard; and the sooner this journey was accomplished the better; for the muscles of my hands were beginning to feel cramped and nerveless from the extraordinary strain which had been put upon them.
Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War Harry Collingwood 1886
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