Meaning
An old style of house wall built by filling a timber frame with stones, marl, and lime mortar to make a solid, thick wall — a step sturdier than plain wattle-and-daub. Named for its supposed Spanish-colonial origin, the Spanish-wall house was a mark of a better-built home in earlier times, cool and durable, and a few such old houses still stand in country districts as survivors of that craft.
Examples
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Di ole house build outta spanish wall.
The old house is built out of Spanish wall.
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Spanish wall thick an it last long.
Spanish wall is thick and it lasts a long time.
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Dem fill di frame wid stone an lime fi mek spanish wall.
They filled the frame with stone and lime to make Spanish wall.
Origin
From 'Spanish' (its reputed colonial origin) + 'wall'; a timber-frame-and-lime-rubble wall. See [[wattle-and-daub]], [[board-house]].
How it’s used
A solid timber-frame-and-lime-rubble house wall; sturdier than wattle-and-daub. See [[wattle-and-daub]], [[board-house]].