dead wall

noun — 2 senses

noun

Architecture A blank wall unbroken by windows or other openings.

The window looked out on to the roof of an outbuilding; beyond, the deep cutting of the railway line. Opposite stood the dead wall that Mr Carlyle had spoken of.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:

Board games, Games, Mahjong A section of the wall from which tiles are not normally drawn.

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