'Hanging wall' definitions:
Definition of 'hanging wall'
From: WordNet
noun
The upper wall of an inclined fault
Definition of 'Hanging wall'
From: GCIDE
- Hanging \Hang"ing\, a.
- 1. Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter. "What a hanging face!" --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges. [1913 Webster]
- Hanging compass, a compass suspended so that the card may be read from beneath.
- Hanging garden, a garden sustained at an artificial elevation by any means, as by the terraces at Babylon.
- Hanging indentation. See under Indentation.
- Hanging rail (Arch.), that rail of a door or casement to which hinges are attached.
- Hanging side (Mining), the overhanging side of an inclined or hading vein.
- Hanging sleeves. (a) Strips of the same stuff as the gown, hanging down the back from the shoulders. (b) Loose, flowing sleeves.
- Hanging stile. (Arch.) (a) That stile of a door to which hinges are secured. (b) That upright of a window frame to which casements are hinged, or in which the pulleys for sash windows are fastened.
- Hanging wall (Mining), the upper wall of inclined vein, or that which hangs over the miner's head when working in the vein. [1913 Webster]