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wall-sided en · ADJ
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Having sides nearly perpendicular, rather than flaring or tumbling home.
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!
1909, Rudyard Kipling, “The Coastwise Lights”, in A Song of the English: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.”
1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC:
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Having perpendicular sides.
On the other side rose this mighty wall-sided peak, too steep for snow, black as night, with sharp ridges and pointed summit.
1871, Edward Whymper, Scrambles amongst the Alps:
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