Meanings of straight wall in English

On the west side of the Green they made a long straight wall.

The sun had set: and the forests became a straight wall of formless blackness.

At the S. end of the straight wall, or "railroad," in S. lat.

The apsis is terminated by a straight wall.

At the ends he builds up a straight wall of reed straw bound up in flat sheaves.

They ascended and descended the cliff with ease, though not, of course, the straight wall or precipice.

Beyond it water splashed a straight wall.

Along the base of the straight wall there was a channel about two feet wide, through which the dark water flowed rapidly.

I looked in silence at the high straight wall we were running by at this moment, the immovable base of a massive sandy coast.

One straight wall ran down the centre, from which, as supports, ran out a number of lateral chambers lying at right angles to it.

The fissure was about twenty feet wide, with a sloping lip on the near side, and a straight wall on the far or forest side.

High above them rose the sheer straight wall of the rock, bristling with frowning fortifications, line above line, and countless embrasures armed with heavy artillery.

Bookcases lined the only two straight walls, rising to the ceiling.

All the straight walls were filled with shelves of real books.

The beam penetrated perhaps thirty feet into the concrete tunnel, which had straight walls but an arched ceiling.

Behind the straight walls and the quiet gates the little town has not crumbled, like the Cité of Carcassonne.