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ˈsidewall
[side n.1 23.]
1. A wall forming the side of a structure, room, or enclosure.
1381Durham Halm. Rolls (Surtees) 171 Et quod le sid⁓wall sit in altitudine vij pedes. c1470Gol. & Gaw. 249 Apone that riche river..The side-wallis war set. 1535Coverdale Ezek. xli. 9 The thicknesse of the syde wall without. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iv. xxi. 352 Which two Proverbs speak no more contradiction, then he that saith that the two opposite side-walls of an house hold up the same roof. 1690W. Walker Idiomat. Anglo-Lat. 238 It was almost side-wall high. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. II. 62/2 The rail or side-wall of the Bridge... The height of this side-wall..must be four foot. 1815Scott Guy M. xxvii, The side-walls had long since given way to time. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 420 Upon this the side-walls are to be founded. 1884W. C. Smith Kildrostan 43 One sidewall long had in ruins lain.
transf.1868Rep. U.S. Comm. Agric. (1869) 258 The stakes are the means of adding side-walls, as it were, to the hedge. 1882Bentley Man. Bot. (ed. 4) 52 Sieve-plate on the side-wall.
2. Sport (esp. Squash Rackets). A wall forming one side of a court.
1902[see boast v.3, n.2]. 1935Encycl. Sports 582/2 [Squash] If..the server makes his ball hit the side wall or roof or floor before it hits the front wall,..he loses his innings. 1963Times 4 Feb. 4/3 This service was nothing more than an astutely placed lob, but which, when hit with reverse spin, clung to the sidewall. 1975Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 823/1 [Real tennis] The side walls are in play up to a height of about 18 ft. (5·5 m.), where the windows begin.
3. a. The side of a vehicle's tyre (tyre n.5 2), usu. untreaded and freq. marked or coloured distinctively. Freq. attrib., as sidewall tyre (also absol. as n.).
1922Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 729/2 The outside of the [tyre's] carcass is entirely covered with rubber; the sides with a ‘sidewall’ layer. c1949in M. McLuhan Mech. Bride (1967) 83 White sidewall tires..available at extra cost. 1972Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 20 Oct. 10/4 Hans Galli, their chief test-pilot, was..convinced that radial-ply tyres were unsuitable for aircraft because of their flexible sidewalls. 1976J. Lee Ninth Man 70 The car... White sidewalls. Radio and heater.
b. A surface at either side of a hovercraft that projects downwards underneath it and helps to contain the air-cushion. Freq. attrib.
1960Aeroplane XCIX. 149/1 This is a type of Hovercraft with side walls which are partially immersed in water. 1960Economist 6 Aug. 585/3 William Denny..is to enter a new field for British companies and develop what are called side-wall craft. 1968Economist 18 May 76/3 The car ferry versions of the sidewall hovercraft now being planned..should provide direct competition with the biggest hydrofoil..now building. 1975Nature 6 Feb. 391/1 The development of a 200-passenger sidewall hover-ferry. |