dead wall

dead wall

English

Noun

dead wall (plural dead walls)

  2. (architecture) A blank wall unbroken by windows or other openings.
    • 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:
      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.
  4. (mahjong) A section of the wall from which tiles are not normally drawn.

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