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Wallit, ppl. adj. Also: wallyt, -id, -yd, walit. [ME and e.m.E. wallid (14th c.), walled (c1400).] Surrounded by a defensive wall or rampart, fortified with walls. 1375 Barb. i 107.
Castell or wallyt toune
1386 Rot. Sc. II 85/2.
Takyng of castel, of forteresses, & wallid tounes
1400 Douglas Corr. 60.
Gudes, hors, and hernais, als wele within wallit town as without
1405 Cal. Doc. IV 404.
To cum in England and sauvely to duel … als wele in walit townis as [wit]houte
c1420 Wynt. viii 195.
Durst nane … abyde … wallyd towne wythin
1456 Hay I 242/24.
Quhen a place, castell, or wallit toune is tane be leddering
1490 Irland Mir. III 140/22.
A gret wallit tovne … was segit diuers ȝeris and nocht wone
c1500 Fyve Bestes 356.
More precious … Than gud or gold or ony wallit tovne
1513 Doug. iii ii 128.
I me enfors with diligence To byg a wallit cite of defens; Pargamea I namyt it
1513 Doug. vii xii 89.
The weirly wallit cite Of Nola witht his stalwart towris he
1647 Melvill lxxii.
Braid-walit Berwick

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