Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wall-sided

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.91 in modern English

Syllables: wal-l-sid-ed
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

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

adj

Having perpendicular sides.

Example Sentences

"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."

Inflected Forms

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

Questions

What does wall-sided mean?: Having sides nearly perpendicular, rather than flaring or tumbling home.

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