Walling vs Wailing - What's the difference?
walling | wailing |
A group of walls.
Material used for walls.
A method of torture in which a person's neck is encircled by a collar, which is then used to slam the person against a wall.
A loud drawn out scream and howl.
*1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 5:
*:'For as soon as I heard Tewkesbury tell of screams and wailings in the air, and no one to be seen,' said Elzevir, 'I guessed that some poor soul had got shut in the vault, and was there crying for his life.
As verbs the difference between walling and wailing
is that walling is present participle of lang=en while wailing is present participle of lang=en.As nouns the difference between walling and wailing
is that walling is a group of walls while wailing is a loud drawn out scream and howl.walling
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(-)wailing
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(en noun)Verb
(head)- Craig ran off wailing because his friend pulled a prank on him.