inwall

I1N1W4A1L1L1

noun

The refractory lining of the stack of a blast furnace; or the interior walls or lining of a shaft furnace.

UncommonScrabble 9

Meanings

nouninwall (plural inwalls)

plural inwalls

  1. The refractory lining of the stack of a blast furnace; or the interior walls or lining of a shaft furnace.
verbinwall (third-person singular simple present inwalls, present participle inwalling, simple past and past participle inwalled)

present singular third person inwalls · participle present inwalling · participle past inwalled · past inwalled · alternative enwall

  1. transitiveTo shut in or enclose with walls.

    in short space would be so augmented , as they would be able with little to inwall themselves strongly

    1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC
    1 more example

    O change my state, unthrall my soule enthralled: / Of my escape then will I tell the story, / And with a crown enwalled / Of godly men, will glory in thy glory.

    a. 1599 (date written), Mary Sidney, “Psalm CXLII. Voce mea ad Dominum.”, in The Psalmes of David […], London: From the Chiswick Press by C[harles] Whittingham, for Robert Triphook, […], published 1823, →OCLC, page 272

Origin

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Cite this entry
APA

inwall. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inwall

MLA

“inwall.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inwall. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “inwall,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inwall.

Source: inwall on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.