walling

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of wall

plural wallings

1. countableuncountableA group of walls.

   The longer the platform, the more signs, fencing, walling, lighting, drainage and public address systems (and so on) are needed.

   2025 July 9, Mel Holley, “How much should a station cost?”, in RAIL, number 1039, page 28

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   Nor was this all; seeing something projecting through the soil at the bottom of the bared patch of walling, I removed the loose earth with my hands, and revealed a huge stone ring, a foot or more in diameter, and about three inches thick.

   1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

   “All three,” says Dr. Schliemann, “were unusually large, and appeared to have been forced into the small space of only 5 feet 6 inches, left for them between the inner wallings […]

   2014, Carl Schuchhardt, Schliemann's Excavations, page 252

2. countableuncountableMaterial used for walls.
3. countableuncountableA method of torture in which a person's neck is encircled by a collar, which is then used to slam the person against a wall.

plural Wallings

1. A surname.