Usually means: Resembling a structure of vertical solidity.
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We found 5 dictionaries that define the word wall-like:

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  1. wall-like: Merriam-Webster
  2. wall-like, wall-like: Collins English Dictionary
  3. wall-like: Wordnik
  4. wall-like: Dictionary.com

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  1. wall-like: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See wall as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Wall)

noun:  A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
noun:  A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
noun:  Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
noun:  A point of desperation.
noun:  A point of defeat or extinction.
noun:  An impediment to free movement.
noun:  The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
noun:  (often in combination) A barrier.
noun:  Something with the apparent solidity, opacity, or dimensions of a building wall.
noun:  (figurative) A means of defence or security.
noun:  One of the vertical sides of a container.
noun:  (anatomy, zoology, botany) A dividing or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
noun:  A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
noun:  (US, slang, medicine) A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
noun:  (soccer) A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
noun:  (roller derby) Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
noun:  (mining) Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
noun:  (Internet) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
noun:  (roleplaying games) A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
noun:  (slang, seduction community, chiefly definite) The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
noun:  (historical) The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian; said to be taken or given.
noun:  (cycling) A very steep slope.
verb:  To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls.
verb:  (video games, slang) To use a wallhack.
verb:  (video games, slang, transitive) To wallbang.
verb:  To boil.
verb:  To well, as water; spring.
noun:  (chiefly dialectal) A spring of water.
noun:  (nautical) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To make a wall knot on the end of (a rope).
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A place in England:
noun:  A village in Gwinear-Gwithian parish, south-west Cornwall (OS grid ref SW6036).
noun:  A village and civil parish in south Northumberland (OS grid ref NY9169); part of Hadrian's Wall is in the parish.
noun:  A village and civil parish in the City of Lichfield district, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SK0906).
noun:  A place in the United States:
noun:  A township in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
noun:  A borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
noun:  A town in Pennington County, South Dakota.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Tom Green County, Texas.
noun:  (history, slang) the Berlin Wall.
noun:  (slang) the Trump Wall.
noun:  (slang) the Great Wall of China.
noun:  (astronomy) A Chinese constellation located near Pegasus and Andromeda, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the larger Black Turtle.
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