Wall-sided
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
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- 1 Having sides nearly perpendicular, rather than flaring or tumbling home.
"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.”"
- 2 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."
Example
More 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.”"
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