Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. (alternative form of drywall English)
WordNet
n. a stone wall made with stones fitted together without mortar [syn: dry-stone wall]
Usage examples of "dry wall".
After a whispered consultation, Evans squirmed forward to a piece of dry wall and stuck a flat disc against it, into which he plugged a stethoscope.
A circular dry wall of jagged white rocks surrounded the well pit.
Practical, inexpensive fire-resistant construction material, with excellent thermal and sound-insulating qualities, is made by heating and compressing plant fibers to create strong construction paneling, replacing dry wall and plywood.
He saved himself by clinging to the smooth, dry wall and glanced nervously behind him.
Very soon my narrow path took me upwards over bare, fissured rock where someone had tried to build a dry wall, to join a broader, but by no means smoother, track along the mountainside.
His short-wavelength radar imager let him see what the snatch crew's night-vision gear missed: It could pinpoint the telltale pulse of warm blood right through a dry wall siding.
He illuminates two sooty eyebolts screwed into the dry wall ceiling about three feet apart.
He was tied with ropes and leaning against the dry wall of the cave, facing the fire.
In a few minutes he and Duncan had unsaddled the horses and heaped their gear against a dry wall.
The long, affixing nail was driven not simply into plaster or dry wall but into a stud, and the head of it was larger than the brass loop through which it was driven, so he had to work hard to remove the stubborn cross from the wall.
The door shook, however, and bullets pierced the wall on both sides of the reinforced frame, tearing holes in the dry wall.