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dry wall
1noun
, Building Trades.
- Also drywall.
- an interior wall or partition finished in a dry material, usually in the form of prefabricated sheets or panels nailed to studs, as distinguished from one that is plastered.
- a material, as wallboard or plasterboard, used for such a wall.
- a masonry or stone wall laid up without mortar.
dry-wall
2[ drahy-wawl ]
verb (used with object)
- to construct or renovate with dry wall:
to dry-wall the interior of a house.
adjective
- of, relating to, or having dry wall.
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Other Words From
- drywaller noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of dry wall1
1770–80, for earlier sense
Origin of dry wall2
First recorded in 1590–1600
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Example Sentences
Again, the dry wall that has fallen becomes saturated, and dissolves itself into soft mud.
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A dry wall needs very little foundation; two thin courses underground are quite enough.
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This is some half a mile from Sker House, and a ragged dry wall makes the parish boundary, severing it from Sker-land.
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Perhaps you neglected something Rhys expected done, of more consequence than a dry wall.'
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Where the plant has found a home on a dry wall, however, it may be a very diminutive affair.
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