walled

walled

English

Adjective

walled (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to a wall; surrounded by a wall
    a walled garden
    • 1947, Joseph F. Rock, The Ancient Na-khi Kingdom of Southwest China‎[1], volume 1, Harvard University Press, pages 19–20:
      The town of Ch’u-hsiung is walled, rather long, and possesses about 15,000 inhabitants. In the Han dynasty Ch'u-hsiung belonged to the territory of I Chou.
    • 2011, Ralph D. Sawyer, Ancient Chinese Warfare‎[2], Basic Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 32:
      Being located about four kilometers from the Yellow River and twenty-three kilometers northwest of Cheng-chou, the early walled site at Hsi-shan lies in the core cultural area.
  2. Pertaining to something which has been placed into a wall, i.e., immured.

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walled

  1. simple past and past participle of wall
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