drywall

• dry wall

dry +‎ wall

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdraɪˌwɔːl/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdraɪˌwɔl/

drywall (countable and uncountable, plural drywalls)

1. A building material comprising a sheet of gypsum sandwiched between two pieces of heavy paper, used mainly for interior walls and ceilings.
   • 2012 December 21, David M. Halbfinger, Charles V. Bagli, Sarah Maslin Nir, “On Ravaged Coastline, It’s Rebuild Deliberately vs. Rebuild Now”, in New York Times‎:

     As moldy drywall thudded to the curb in a depressing drumbeat throughout Breezy Point, Queens, Thomas Ryan’s reciprocating saw stood out like a growling declaration of impatience.

2. A wall made of this.
3. A stone wall constructed without mortar or cement.

• Thesaurus:drywall

• cement board
• drystone
• gypsum plaster
• lath
• plaster
• plasterboard

drywall (third-person singular simple present drywalls, present participle drywalling, simple past and past participle drywalled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To install and finish drywall.

• sheetrock

• plaster