wall-sided

English

Adjective

wall-sided (comparative more wall-sided, superlative most wall-sided)

  1. (nautical) Having sides nearly perpendicular, rather than flaring or tumbling home.
    • 1909, Rudyard Kipling, “The Coastwise Lights”, in A Song of the English:
      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!

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “wall-sided”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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