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English
Etymology
From in- + wall.
Noun
inwall (plural inwalls)
- The refractory lining of the stack of a blast furnace; or the interior walls or lining of a shaft furnace.
Verb
inwall (third-person singular simple present inwalls, present participle inwalling, simple past and past participle inwalled)
- (transitive) To shut in or enclose with walls.
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, y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:in short space would be so augmented , as they would be able with little to inwall themselves strongly
a. 1599 (date written), Mary Sidney, “Psalm CXLII. Voce mea ad Dominum.”, in The Psalmes of David , London: From the Chiswick Press by C Whittingham, for Robert Triphook, , published 1823, →OCLC, page 272: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.
Further reading
- United States Bureau of Mines, Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms (1996).
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