dry wall

1. 1.

   a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions; made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses

   Synonymswallboarddrywall

   Broaderboard

   Narrowerbeaver boardfiberboardplasterboard
2. 2.

   a stone wall made with stones fitted together without mortar

   Synonymsdry-stone wall

   Broaderstone walldry masonry

Questions about dry wall

What does dry wall mean?

dry wall means "a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions; made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for dry wall?

Close synonyms include wallboard, drywall, dry-stone wall. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dry wall a common word?

dry wall is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.