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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(nautical) Having sides nearly perpendicular, rather than flaring or tumbling home..
She was a good, substantial ship, not quite so long as the Alert, and wall-sided and kettle-bottomed, after the latest fashion of south-shore cotton and sugar wagons; strong, too, and tight, and a good average sailor, but with no pretensions to beauty, and nothing in the style of a “crack ship.”
We greet the clippers wing-and-wing that race the Southern wool; We warn the crawling cargo-tanks of Bremen, Leith, and Hull; To each and all our equal lamp at peril of the sea— The white wall-sided warships or the whalers of Dundee!
On the other side rose this mighty wall-sided peak, too steep for snow, black as night, with sharp ridges and pointed summit.
Use wall-sided when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wall-sided means (nautical) Having sides nearly perpendicular, rather than flaring or tumbling home..
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She was a good, substantial ship, not quite so long as the Alert, and wall-sided and kettle-bottomed, after the latest fashion of south-shore cotton and sugar wagons; strong, too, and tight, and a good average sailor, but with no pretensions to beauty, and nothing in the style of a “crack ship.”
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