[f. WALL v.2 + -ER1.] One who builds walls (see quot. 1908).
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 514/1. Wallare, murator, machio. Wallare, þat werkythe wythe stone and morter, cementarius.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, I. i. 12. Fra quhame … Come … the valleris of greit Rome.
c. 1565. in 14th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. III. 30. Four masones and viij wallaris: viij quariouris.
1612. N. Riding Rec. (1884), I. 253. Oswald Collyson waller or rough mason.
1683. Churchw. Acc. Pittington, etc. (Surtees) 341. To the wallers for work and plastering, 1 l. 2 s.
1890. Lincoln Gaz., 30 Aug., 4/1. Choppers, Wallers, and Masons for Ancaster Stone Wanted.
1908. Remin. Stonemason, 89–89. He himself was what is called a ‘waller’—that is, he did not dress stones, but set them on the walls when dressed, or else built walls of rough, unhewn stone.
