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BEARING WALL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any wall supporting a floor or the roof of a building
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("bearing wall" is a kind of...):
support (any device that bears the weight of another thing)
wall (an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure)
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