Meaning of wall-sided | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having sides nearly perpendicular, rather than flaring or tumbling home.
2. Having perpendicular sides.

Examples

“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.”

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