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Walling vs Wailing - What's the difference?

walling | wailing |

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

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (-)
  • 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.

    • wailing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

    • Verb

    (head)
    • Craig ran off wailing because his friend pulled a prank on him.