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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Wall  \Wall\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Walled};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Walling}.] 
  1.  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.  --Chaucer. 
 
  2.  To  defend  by  walls,  or  as  if  by  walls;  to  fortify. 
 
  The  terror  of  his  name  that  walls  us  in  --Denham. 
 
  3.  To  close  or  fill  with  a  wall,  as  a  doorway. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Walling  \Wall"ing\,  n. 
  1.  The  act  of  making  a  wall  or  walls. 
 
  2.  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. 
 
  From  U.S.  Gazetteer  (1990)  [gazetteer]: 
 
  Walling,  TN 
  Zip  code(s):  38587 




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