wall-sided

comparative more wall-sided · superlative most wall-sided

1. nauticalHaving 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

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   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

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.

   1871, Edward Whymper, Scrambles amongst the Alps