The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wall \Wall\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Walled; p. pr. & vb. n. Walling.]
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To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall. ``Seven walled towns of strength.''
--Shak.The king of Thebes, Amphion, That with his singing walled that city.
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To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify.
The terror of his name that walls us in.
--Denham. To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.
Walling \Wall"ing\, n.
The act of making a wall or walls.
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Walls, in general; material for walls.
Walling wax, a composition of wax and tallow used by etchers and engravers to make a bank, or wall, round the edge of a plate, so as to form a trough for holding the acid used in etching, and the like.
--Fairholt.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A group of walls. 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. vb. (present participle of wall English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Walling is a method of torture used by the CIA in which a person's neck is encircled by a collar, and the collar then used to slam the person against a wall. According to information gathered by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from six detainees, "walling" meant "beating by use of a collar," in at least one instance against a concrete wall.
Prompted to explain their interrogation techniques to the United States Justice Department in 2005, the CIA provided a series of memos to the department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), one of which described "walling." The memo states that walling "involves the use of a flexible, false wall ... the interrogator pulls the individual forward and then quickly and firmly pushes the individual into the wall. It is the individual's shoulder blades that hit the wall. During this motion, the head and neck are supported with a rolled hood or towel".
Stephen G. Bradbury, a Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General during the Bush administration, said that walling "involves what may be characterized as rough handling."
Usage examples of "walling".
The first person we saw was Mr Reiter, who was busy photographing some walling.
The expedient of walling up the front of a shallow cavity, commonly practiced in the San Juan region, while comparatively rare in this vicinity, was known to the dwellers in these cavate lodges.
There, even as the Witches had done to defeat Ragan, those among them possessing the Power had wrought a mighty earthshaking, walling out their ancient homeland.
Walling was director, Miss Margaret Oaks and Miss Mabel Hussey were the organists during the time.
The glassy scaurs and grim ramparts of Mount Voormithadreth , highest and most formidable of the Eiglophians, had beetled above them, wedging the sun with dark scoriac peaks at mid-afternoon, and walling the blazonries of sunset wholly from view.
The glassy scaurs and grim ramparts of Mount Voormithadreth, highest and most formidable of the Eiglophians, had beetled above them, wedging the sun with dark scoriac peaks at mid-afternoon, and walling the blazonries of sunset wholly from view.
They'd been raised in Colorado, she and my mom, in Fort Collins, which I'd never seen but always pictured with the actual fort, hewn from area lumber and still walling the pioneers from the natives.
Plenty of flowing water, but I doubt if it stays the course long enough to create great canyons, and the eruptions and fragmentations tend to break down attempts at walling it up as lakes.