To give one the Wall

To give one the Wall a compliment paid to the female sex, or those to whom one would show respect, by letting them go nearest the wall or houses, upon a supposition of it’s being the cleanest. This custom is chiefly peculiar to England, for in most parts abroad they will give them the right hand, tho’ at the same time they thrust them into the kennel.

Definition taken from The Universal Etymological English Dictionary, edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)

Wall * Waˊntonness
Urbane
Wale Knot [with Sailors]
Wall
To give one the Wall
Waˊntonness
Waˊpentakes
Wapp [in a Ship]
Wax-chandlers
Wence [in Kent]
Windlass, or Windless
Wontlings
Wong, or Wang
Xeriff