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(noun) - (1) The interval between death and burial is sometimes spoken of in Suffolk as "lying by the wall." There was a saying, "If one lie by the wall on Sunday, there will be another corpse in the same parish before the week is out."
--Eveline Gurdon's Suffolk County Folklore, 1893
(2) Moleday, burial day.
--James Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, 1855
January 14, 2018