walling

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of wall. Use this form for the ongoing action of building or closing something with a wall.

   Walling the garden kept the rabbits away from the vegetables.

   The workers are walling off the unsafe area.

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2. 2
   noununcountable

   The material used to build walls, such as brick, stone, or concrete.

   Like the bricks and cement you gather before you can put up a wall.

   The builders ordered enough walling to enclose the whole yard.

   Stone walling costs more than brick but lasts longer.

   Similarmasonry

3. 3
   noununcountable

   Several walls thought of together as one group.

   The castle's outer walling had crumbled in several places.

   Workers repaired the walling around the old garden.

   Similarfortifications, ramparts

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4. 4
   noununcountable

   A way of hurting someone by putting a collar on their neck and slamming them into a wall.

   The prisoners feared the walling more than anything else.

   Guards used walling to frighten the people they questioned.

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