Definitions for Waller

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Waller Wal·ler

Spelling: [wol-er, waw-ler]

IPA: /ˈwɒl ər, ˈwɔ lər/

Waller is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in Waller (aellrw).

Definitions for Waller

noun

1. Edmund, 1607–87, English poet.
2. Thomas ("Fats") 1904–43, U.S. jazz pianist and songwriter.
3. any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
4. Usually, walls. a rampart raised for defensive purposes.
5. an immaterial or intangible barrier, obstruction, etc., suggesting a wall:
6. a wall-like, enclosing part, thing, mass, etc.:
7. an embankment to prevent flooding, as a levee or sea wall.
8. the outermost film or layer of structural material protecting, surrounding, and defining the physical limits of an object:
9. Soccer. a line of defenders standing shoulder to shoulder in an attempt to block a free kick with their bodies.
10. Mining. the side of a level or drift. the overhanging or underlying side of a vein; a hanging wall or footwall.

adjective

1. of or relating to a wall:
2. growing against or on a wall:
3. situated, placed, or installed in or on a wall:

verb (used with object)

1. to enclose, shut off, divide, protect, border, etc., with or as if with a wall (often followed by in or off):
2. to seal or fill (a doorway or other opening) with a wall:
3. to seal or entomb (something or someone) within a wall (usually followed by up):

Idioms

1. climb (the) walls, Slang. to become tense or frantic:
2. drive / push to the wall, to force into a desperate situation; humiliate or ruin completely:
3. go over the wall, Slang. to break out of prison:
4. go to the wall, to be defeated in a conflict or competition; yield. to fail in business, especially to become bankrupt. to be put aside or forgotten. to take an extreme and determined position or measure:
5. hit the wall, (of long-distance runners) to reach a point in a race, usually after 20 miles, when the body's fuels are virtually depleted and willpower becomes crucial to be able to finish.
6. off the wall, Slang. beyond the realm of acceptability or reasonableness: markedly out of the ordinary; eccentric; bizarre:
7. up against the wall, placed against a wall to be executed by a firing squad. in a crucial or critical position, especially one in which defeat or failure seems imminent:
8. up the wall, Slang. into an acutely frantic, frustrated, or irritated state:

Origin of Waller

before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English w(e)all Latin vallum palisade, derivative of vallus stake, post; see wale¹; (v.) Middle English, derivative

Examples for Waller

Of course Josie saw to it that Mrs. Waller's room was one to be cleaned by her.

In it he begged the physician to keep Mrs. Waller for a while longer.

Nothing of a Mrs. Waller who has been in your sanitarium for a year or more?

Big Waller burst into an uncontrollable fit of laughter at this.

"Stephen must hear all you have to tell of the children," said Mrs. Waller.

Waller, though a better poet than Voiture, was not yet a finished poet.

You will go into the world and blush like Waller's rose, to be so admired.

After his majesty had read the poem, he told Waller that he wrote a better on Cromwell.

I am sure Captain Waller will want me to let you go and not have you arrested.

Waller was rescued from oblivion and labelled as the first of the classical poets.