[f. WALL v.2 + -ED1.]
1. Furnished with or as with a wall, enclosed with a wall. Of a town, etc.: Surrounded or protected with fortifications. Of a well, cistern, pond, the sides of a cavity, etc.: Lined or faced with masonry.
c. 1000. Ags. Ps. (Spelm.), xxx. 27 [22]. On ceastre ʓewealledre [Vulg. in civitate munita].
13[?]. K. Alis., 6068. They haden wallid cite townes, In dalis, and eke in downes.
1450–1530. Myrr. Our Ladye, II. 72. Cytyes and Castelles and walled townes.
1591. Shaks., 1 Hen. VI., III. iv. 7. Twelue Cities, and seuen walled Townes of strength. Ibid. (1605), Lear, V. iii. 18. And wee’l weare out In a wall’d prison, packs and sects of great ones.
1671. Milton, P. R., II. 22. Each Town or City wall’d On this side the broad lake Genezaret.
1756–7. trans. Keysler’s Trav. (1760), I. 191. On one side of this cathedral is a walled terrass.
1789. Ir. Act 29 Geo. III., c. 33 § 25. Walled deer-parks, and planted avenues excepted.
1819. W. S. Rose, Lett. N. Italy, II. 85, note. Oblong, pieces of walled ground, planted with fruit-trees.
1839. Ure, Dict. Arts, etc., 820. [These] have led to the contrivance of surrounding the area on which the roasting takes place with three little walls or with four…. This is what is called a walled area.
1869. Tozer, Highl. Turkey, I. 376. A walled Bulgarian village.
1880. C. R. Markham, Peruv. Bark, 130. A succession of … terraced gardens…. Their walled sides are thickly clothed with Calceolarias, Celsias [etc.].
1895. Outing, XXVII. 237/2. Neptune’s Grotto is an enchanting, walled fish-pond.
fig. 1907. Raleigh, Shakespeare, 201. Bereavement or crime breaking in upon the walled serenity of daily life.
b. with qualifying word prefixed.
c. 1400. Maundev. (Roxb.), vii. 24. Þe whilk es a strang citee and a wele walled.
1871. W. Morris, in Mackail, Life (1899), I. 267. A great double-walled dyke.
1901. Clive Holland, Mousmé, 18. Our little fragile-walled house on the hillside at Nagasaki.
2. With advs. a. Walled-up, closed or blocked up with masonry.
1826. Cobbett, Rur. Rides (1885), II. 118. A … large walled-in garden.
1886. Willis & Clark, Cambridge, I. 219. The third chamber has another old walled-up window.
1903. F. W. H. Myers, Human Personality, 103. Like wine found in a walled up cellar.
1906. C. Bigg, Wayside Sk. Eccl. Hist., i. 12. In front of the church was a walled-in court.
b. Walled-in, -up, entombed in a wall.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. V. ix. Crowds … gaze on the skeletons found walled-up.
1903. Daily Chron., 11 Feb., 3/6. The remains of a walled-in nun were discovered.
3. Anat. and Zool. Furnished with a ‘wall’ or investing structure: chiefly in parasynthetic formations. Also walled-off, separated by a ‘wall.’
1875. Huxley & Martin, Elem. Biol. (1877), 201. The atrium: thin-walled, rounded, lies on the dorsal aspect of the truncus and ventricle.
1890. Retrospect Med., CII, 362. It was a smooth walled cavity,… about the size of a small marble.
1906. Brit. Med. Jrnl., 13 Jan., 70. A small walled-off pocket.
4. Of the nature of a wall, made of stone-work.
1805. R. W. Dickson, Pract. Agric., I. 115. Where stones can be easily procured,… walled fences may be preferable.
