Wall-sided
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Wall-sided is an adjective meaning (nautical) Having sides nearly perpendicular, rather than flaring or tumbling home.
Meaning
(nautical) Having sides nearly perpendicular, rather than flaring or tumbling home.
More Meanings
- Having perpendicular sides.
Example Sentences
On the other side rose this mighty wall-sided peak, too steep for snow, black as night, with sharp ridges and pointed summit.
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!
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.”
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include roundsided, slab-sided, flat-bottomed, square, square-rigged, sideling.
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