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WALL-SIDED
WALL-SIDED, the figure of a ship's side, when, instead of being incurvated so as to become gradually narrower towards the upper part, it is nearly perpendicular to the surface of the water, like a wall: and hence the derivation of the phrase.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 311, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/1462.html