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walling

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verb

  1. To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls.“He walled the study with books.”

verb

  1. To boil.
  2. To well, as water; spring.

verb

  1. To make a wall knot on the end of (a rope).

noun

  1. A group of walls.
  2. Material used for walls.
  3. A 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.

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