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Definitions for Waller

[1] Edmund, 1607–87, English poet.
[2] Thomas Fats , 1904–43, U.S. jazz pianist and songwriter.
[3] any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
[4] Usually walls. a rampart raised for defensive purposes.
[5] an immaterial or intangible barrier, obstruction, etc., suggesting a wall: a wall of prejudice.
[6] a wall-like, enclosing part, thing, mass, etc.: a wall of fire; a wall of troops.
[7] an embankment to prevent flooding, as a levee or sea wall.
[8] the outermost film or layer of structural material protecting, surrounding, and defining the physical limits of an object: the wall of a blood cell.
[9] Soccer . a line of defenders standing shoulder to shoulder in an attempt to block a free kick with their bodies.
[10] Mining . the side of a level or drift. the overhanging or underlying side of a vein; a hanging wall or footwall.
[11] of or relating to a wall: wall space.
[12] growing against or on a wall: wall plants; wall cress.
[13] situated, placed, or installed in or on a wall: wall oven; a wall safe.
[14] to enclose, shut off, divide, protect, border, etc., with or as if with a wall (often followed by in or off ): to wall the yard; to wall in the play area; He is walled in by lack of opportunity.
[15] to seal or fill (a doorway or other opening) with a wall: to wall an unused entrance.
[16] to seal or entomb (something or someone) within a wall (usually followed by up ): The workmen had walled up the cat quite by mistake.
[17] Edmund. 1606–87, English poet and politician, famous for his poem "Go, Lovely Rose"
[18] Fats, real name Thomas Waller. 1904–43, US jazz pianist and singer
[19] a vertical construction made of stone, brick, wood, etc, with a length and height much greater than its thickness, used to enclose, divide, or support (as modifier ) wall hangings Related adjective: mural
[20] (often plural) a structure or rampart built to protect and surround a position or place for defensive purposes
[21] anatomy any lining, membrane, or investing part that encloses or bounds a bodily cavity or structure abdominal wall Technical name: paries Related adjective: parietal
[22] mountaineering a vertical or almost vertical smooth rock face
[23] anything that suggests a wall in function or effect a wall of fire ; a wall of prejudice
[24] bang one's head against a brick wall to try to achieve something impossible
[25] drive to the wall or push to the wall to force into an awkward situation
[26] go to the wall to be ruined; collapse financially
[27] drive up the wall slang to cause to become crazy or furious
[28] go up the wall slang to become crazy or furious
[29] have one's back to the wall to be in a very difficult situation
[30] See off-the-wall
[31] See wall-to-wall
[32] to protect, provide, or confine with or as if with a wall
[33] (often foll by up) to block (an opening) with a wall
[34] (often foll by in or up ) to seal by or within a wall or walls

Origin of Waller

before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English w(e)all < Latin vallum palisade, derivative of vallus stake, post; see wale1; (v.) Middle English, derivative of the noun

Other words from Waller

wall-less , adjective
wall-like , adjective
un·wall , verb (used with object)

Word origin for Waller

Old English weall, from Latin vallum palisade, from vallus stake