Wallsend

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A town in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3066).
  2. 2
    A western suburb of the city of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
  3. 3
    An unincorporated community in Bell County, Kentucky, United States.
Noun
  1. 1
    A kind of coal originally dug at Wallsend on the Tyne. countable, uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

From (in England) wall + end, after its historical position at the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall.

Etymology 2

From (in England) wall + end, after its historical position at the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall.

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