Now dial. [f. WALL v.1 + -ING1.] The action of boiling brine in salt-making. (See also quot. 1674.) Also attrib., as walling-house, shed; walling-lead, a salt-pan.
1556. B.N.C. (Oxon.) Munim. 20 No. 47 (MS.). Houses, cottages, saltehouses, wallingehouses, places where any saltehouse or wichehouse hath heretofore been [Middlewich].
1611. Inventory, in Chesh. Local Gleanings (E.D.D.). ii Walling Leads.
1669. Dr. W. Jackson, in Phil. Trans., IV. 1061. The bank … [is] accidentally raised by rubbish of long making Salt, or Walling, as they call it.
1674. Ray, Coll. Words, Making of Salt, 142. A Lead-walling is the Brine of twenty four hours boiling for one house…. They have four sworn Officers chosen yearly, which they call Occupiers of Walling, whose duty it is to see equal dealing between Lord and Tenant, and all persons concerned.
1894. Baring-Gould, Queen of Love, II. 15. The white cloud filled the walling (boiling) house. Ibid., 16. The coils of steam turned and rolled and clung in the walling shed.
