wall-sided

wall-sided (comparative more wall-sided, superlative most wall-sided)

1. (nautical) Having sides nearly perpendicular, rather than flaring or tumbling home.
   • 1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC:

     She was a good, substantial ship, not quite so long as the Alert, and wall-sided and kettle-bottomed, after the latest fashion of south-shore cotton and sugar wagons; strong, too, and tight, and a good average sailor, but with no pretensions to beauty, and nothing in the style of a “crack ship.”

   • 1909, Rudyard Kipling, “The Coastwise Lights”, in A Song of the English:

     We greet the clippers wing-and-wing that race the Southern wool;
     We warn the crawling cargo-tanks of Bremen, Leith, and Hull;
     To each and all our equal lamp at peril of the sea—
     The white wall-sided warships or the whalers of Dundee!

2. Having perpendicular sides.
   • 1871, Edward Whymper, Scrambles amongst the Alps:

     On the other side rose this mighty wall-sided peak, ​too steep for snow, black as night, with sharp ridges and pointed summit.

• “wall-sided”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.