hanging wall

1. 1.

   the upper wall of an inclined fault

   Broaderwall

   Part ofinclined fault

Questions about hanging wall

What does hanging wall mean?

hanging wall means "the upper wall of an inclined fault".

Is hanging wall a common word?

hanging wall is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.