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单词 midwall
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midwalln.

Brit. /ˈmɪdwɔːl/, U.S. /ˈmɪdˌwɔl/, /ˈmɪdˌwɑl/
Forms: see mid adj. and wall n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mid adj., wall n.1
Etymology: < mid adj. + wall n.1 Compare earlier middle wall n. at middle adj. and n. Compounds 1a.
An interior or dividing wall or partition.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > wall of building > [noun] > interior or partition-wall
woughc888
wallOE
middle wallc1384
parclose1387
partitionc1450
screena1475
hallan1490
parpen wall1506
parpal walla1525
midwall1589
partition wall1605
inwall?1611
parpalling1621
screen work1648
sconce1695
stud partition1775
screening1850
scrap screen1873
parclose screen1889
1589–90 in R. S. Mylne Master Masons to Crown of Scotl. (1893) 68 Medwall.
1616 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 339 To mack ane hewin doir in the mid wall, betuixt the northmest voult and the southermest voult.
1878 Princeton Rev. July–Dec. 634 Instead of maintaining Reformation principles, it has devoted every energy to the reversal of them as forming the barrier and ‘mid-wall of partition’ between the Church of their baptism and that Church with which they were seeking..reunion.
1886 J. Barrowman Gloss. Sc. Mining Terms 44 Mid-wall, a close wooden partition dividing a shaft into compartments.
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Apr. 3/1 By the expenditure of a few shillings in hanging a mid wall of screencloth a plentiful supply of air could have been obtained.
1992 R. Pilcher Flowers in Rain (BNC) i. 8 He went back..to the instruction sheet. Glue stair treads to base. Glue second mid wall to base. He had done that. And still the stairs wouldn't fit.

Compounds

midwall shaft n. Architecture a shaft or baluster, placed in the middle of the thickness of the wall, in an early type of English belfry window.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > door or window ornaments
frontal1578
antepagment1658
frieze-panel1678
chambranle1692
rybat1720
placard1728
window screen1772
window dressing1774
midwall shaft1872
lambrequin1883
frieze-rail-
1872 E. A. Freeman in Fortn. Rev. 1 Oct. 391 The ‘Saxon’ towers of England..with the mid-wall shafts of their windows.
1893 Reliquary Jan. 17 The midwall shafts, which are slightly barrel-shaped, are ten inches in diameter.
1939 Invent. Hist. Monum. City Oxf. (Royal Comm. Hist. Monuments) 142/1 An original window of two round-headed lights with imposts and a mid-wall baluster-shaft.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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