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单词 mud wall
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mud walln.

Brit. /ˌmʌd ˈwɔːl/, U.S. /ˈməd ˈwɔl/, /ˈməd ˈwɑl/
Forms: see mud n.1 and wall n.1; also late Middle English madewalle (perhaps transmission error).
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mud n.1, wall n.1
Etymology: < mud n.1 + wall n.1
1. A wall made of earth or clay, or with clay as a substitute for mortar; †the material forming such a wall (obsolete).
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > wall > types of
mud walla1395
ground-wall1712
retaining wall1771
cob wall1790
wing-wall1791
honeycomb wall1850
toe wall1934
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > earth > [noun] > mud used for building
mud wall1578
kachcha1834
a1395 in Archaeologia (1832) 24 313 Pro factura ij perticatarum muri ex parte occidentale gardini vocata mudwall.
c1445 Plea & Mem. Rolls London Guildhall sig. A 71.3b They seyen that thei fynde there a Coyne of a wall of ston..& a mudwall strecchyng in length westward.
1464 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 373 For makyng of the modde walle.
1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 52 The houses are great, made of lime stone, & bricke: others there are made of mood wal, and rafters.
1635 J. Jones Adrasta i. i. 3 And by such mudwall stayres doe often rise.
1679 T. Kirke Mod. Acct. Scotl. 10 The Houses of the Commonalty are very mean, Mud-wall and Thatch the best.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. xix. 358 Earthly Minds, like Mud-Walls, resist the strongest Batteries.
c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 169 Little hutts and hovels the poor Live in Like Barnes..daub'd with mud-wall.
a1771 R. Wood Ess. Homer (1775) 242 The mud walls of a Turkish cottage.
1789 Trans. Soc. Arts 7 34 Two parts old cobb (alias mud-wall).
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §159 Mode of building the Mud Walls of Cottages in Cambridgeshire.
1878 T. Hardy Return of Native I. i. viii. 164 Only a few inches of mudwall kept him and his family from being gipsies themselves.
1891 R. W. Murray S. Afr. 194 A kraal is..a collection of huts surrounded by mud walls or palisading.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 67/1 The town was surrounded by a mud wall, pierced by six gates, and was further protected by a ditch 5 ft. deep.
1973 V. C. Ike Potter's Wheel (1974) iii. 22 Leaving the early weeks of the new year free for cutting the special grass for roofing the mud walls round the compound.
1990 Country Homes June 92 An empty sloping lawn stretched up to the remains of a thatched mud wall.
2. figurative. Obsolete.
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the world > life > the body > [noun]
lichamc888
bodyeOE
earthOE
lichOE
bone houseOE
dustc1000
fleshOE
utter mana1050
bonesOE
bodiȝlichc1175
bouka1225
bellyc1275
slimec1315
corpsec1325
vesselc1360
tabernaclec1374
carrion1377
corsec1386
personc1390
claya1400
carcass1406
lump of claya1425
sensuality?a1425
corpusc1440
God's imagea1450
bulka1475
natural body1526
outward man1526
quarrons1567
blood bulk1570
skinfula1592
flesh-rind1593
clod1595
anatomy1597
veil1598
microcosm1601
machine1604
outwall1608
lay part1609
machina1612
cabinet1614
automaton1644
case1655
mud wall1662
structure1671
soul case1683
incarnation1745
personality1748
personage1785
man1830
embodiment1850
flesh-stuff1855
corporeity1865
chassis1930
soma1958
1662 Bp. E. Hopkins Funeral Serm. (1685) 78 There stand nothing between us and our eternal state, but this thin mud-wall of our bodies.
1671 A. Seller Devout Communicant 174 Our mud-wall of flesh made spiritual and transparent.

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General attributive.
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1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xii. l. 680 Castell was thar nayn Bot mudwall werk withoutyn lym or stayn.
1490 in J. Robertson & C. Innes Munimenta Univ. Glasguensis (1854) II. 256 For the makyn of the mudwal dyk.
1543 tr. Statutes from Henry III. to Henry VIII. Table sig. Avi/2 Mud wall makers.
1674 in P. H. Brown Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1911) 3rd Ser. IV. 278 A mudwall rowme..built upon his owne coast.
1785 W. Cowper Wks. (1837) XV. 159 The mud-wall cottages of our poor at Olney.
1844 J. Gregg Commerce of Prairies I. 109 [San Miguel, New Mexico] consists of irregular clusters of mud-wall huts.
1989 San Diego Oct. 18/3 Works include stone or wooden floor sculptures and mud wall drawings.
1991 R. Waldrop tr. A. Borer Rimbaud in Abyssinia iii. 55 There is again the countryside and its islands of mud-wall toukouls with their straw roofs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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