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ˈwater-wall
[Cf. G. wasserwall.]
1. A wall which rises by the side of water; a containing wall beside or around a body of water.
a1440Sir Degrev. 907 Ther ys a place in the wall, Bytwyne the chaumbur and the hal, Thor lyȝthe a mychel watur-wal Of fourty feyt brede. 1445–6Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 630 Pro reparacione et emendacione de le Waterwall ac rote exterioris molendini de Scaltoke, 15s. 1574in Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1582, 105/2 Necnon edificando lie walterwall cum aist(l)erstanis dicti molendini. 1660Melrose Regality Rec. (S.H.S.) I. 262 [John Mein, mason, sues William Edgar for 4 l. Scots] for beating of the watter-wall. 1907J. Webster Jerry Jr. ii. 21 Three [girls]..were kneeling on the beach thumping and scrubbing a pile of linen. The grass beyond the water-wall was already white with bleaching sheets.
†2. Some plant. Obs. rare—1.
Cf. penny-wall, dial. name (Isle of Man) for the wall pennywort (Eng. Dial. Dict.).
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 629 They giue hir the Hearbe Penny-wort or Water-wall to drinke in water. |