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Meaning of Walling | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

  1. A group of walls.
  2. A surname.
  3. Material used for walls.
  4. A method of torture in which a person's neck is encircled by a collar, which is then used to slam the person against a wall.

Equivalents

العربية التحويط

Examples

“Nor was this all; seeing something projecting through the soil at the bottom of the bared patch of walling, I removed the loose earth with my hands, and revealed a huge stone ring, a foot or more in diameter, and about three inches thick.”
““All three,” says Dr. Schliemann, “were unusually large, and appeared to have been forced into the small space of only 5 feet 6 inches, left for them between the inner wallings […]”
“The longer the platform, the more signs, fencing, walling, lighting, drainage and public address systems (and so on) are needed.”

CEFR level

C2
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This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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