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† ground-wall Obs.
Forms: see ground and wall.
1. The lower portion of a wall or building: a foundation. Also transf. and fig.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Luke vi. 48 He ys ᵹelic timbriendum men his hus, se..hys grundweall ofer þæne stan asette. c1000ælfric Gram. (Z.) 289 Se cræft is ealra boclicra cræfta ordfruma and grundweall. c1200Ormin 13372 Crist iss stan to ben grunndwall Off all hiss hallȝhe temmple. a1225Juliana 72 Lokeð þat te heouenlich lauerd beo grundwal of al þat ȝe wurcheð. c1275Luue Ron 124 in O.E. Misc. 97 Ne may no Mynur hire [? hit] vnderwrote ne neuer false þene grundwal. a1300Cursor M. 2242 Tua and sexti fathum brad Was þe grundwall þat þai made. Ibid. 8424 Lere o clerge well he sal, þat es o wisdom þe grundwall. c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 210 A castelle he þouht to reise, He cast þe groundwalle þik. 1392–3Mem. Ripon (Surtees) 114 In salar. iij cementariorum operant. super j Grundewall ibidem per iiij dies, 5s. [From other passages, this app. means: The plinth of masonry in a half timber building.] c1425Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 667/11 Hoe fundum, growndwalle.
attrib.a1755Edom o' Gordon xii. in Child Ballads III. 433/2 Why pow [= pull] ye out my ground-wa-stane, Lets in the reek to me?
2. A retaining wall (see quot.).
1712J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 206 The Wall..from the Bottom of the Digging, to the Level of the Ground above..is called the Ground-Wall, because it is built only to resist the Pressure of the Ground about it.
Hence † ground-waller, one who builds a ground wall.
1477Order in York Myst. (1885) Introd. 21 note, Erthe wallers, pavers, dykers, ground wallers with erthe. |