inwall

noun, verb — 2 senses

inwall

noun

Etymology From in- + wall.

1

The refractory lining of the stack of a blast furnace; or the interior walls or lining of a shaft furnace.

inwall

verb

Etymology From in- + wall.

1

To shut in or enclose with walls.

  • in short space would be so augmented , as they would be able with little to inwall themselves strongly1596 (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, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
  • 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.a. 1599 (date written), Mary Sidney, “Psalm CXLII. Voce mea ad Dominum.”, in The Psalmes of David […], London: From the Chiswick Press by C[harles] Whittingham, for Robert Triphook, […], published 1823, →OCLC, page 272:

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