mudwalled, ppl. a.
(ˈmʌdwɔːld)
[f. mud n.1 + wall n. + -ed2.]
Having mud walls. Also fig.
| 1607 T. Walkington Opt. Glass 22 This mud-wald cottage. 1630 Epitaph in J. R. Leifchild Cornwall Mines (1855) 20 O what a bubble, vapour, puffe of breath,..Is mud-wald man! 1689 Prior Epist. to F. Shephard 20 As Folks from Mud-wall'd Tenement Bring Landlords Pepper-corn for Rent. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. Plate xxviii, A small mud-walled cheap cottage. 1884 J. Colborne Hicks Pasha 84 Mud-walled streets are unnumbered. 1892 Kipling Barrack-Room Ballads 171 Put them in mud-walled prisons. 1961 L. Mumford City in Hist. vi. 159 Did the forms of Phidias rise in this barnyard scattering of workshops..mid these mud-walled huts? 1971 Inside Kenya Today Mar. 37/1 The mud-walled and grass-thatched office. 1974 Nat. Geographic Aug. 255/1 The traditional mud-walled farmhouse with thatched roof has two bedrooms and a kitchen. |