Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Rolled along by water: specially applied to boulders or pebbles which, beginning as angular masses, have had their corners worn off by being rolled along in a current of water. Rounded water-rolled pebbles may thus be contrasted with angular glacial pebbles.

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Examples

  • The Wasm in most cases showed some form of a cross, which is held to be a potent charm by the Sinaitic Bedawin; and on two detached water-rolled pebbles were distinctly inscribed lH and Vl, which looked exceedingly like Europe.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • The sole of the Sirr now appeared spread with snow, streaked and patched with thin white paint; the stones were mostly water-rolled, the discharge of valleys draining from afar.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • The sand, pink above and chloritic yellow below, ended in a thick bed of water-rolled pebbles, not in ground-rock; nor did it show the couch of excellent clay which usually underlies the surface, and which, I have said, is extracted through pits to make sun-dried brick, swish, and other building materials.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • A steep descent over water-rolled pebbles showed the old bank; the other side, far and blue, gave a goodly breadth of five miles; then we plunged into the green selvage of the modern stream, following muddy paths where the inundation had extended last June.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • The upper part of the Fiumara also showed abundant scatters of water-rolled stones, serpentines, and hard felspars, whose dove-coloured surface was streaked with fibrils and at times with regular veins of silvery lustre, as if brought out by friction of the surface.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • The material was of water-rolled boulders, huge pebbles without mortar or cement.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • Here he again found a fragment of serpentine, broken and water-rolled into the semblance of half a globe; it showed crust and stains of iron, filets of white quartz, and a curve (~) of bright yellow dots, disposed like the chainlet of an aneroid.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • That to the south showed us a perfectly familiar formation; conglomerates of water-rolled pebbles in the lower levels, and hills of the normal dark porphyries, with large quartz-seams of many colours trending in every direction.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • In many cases the evidence would seem to indicate that after such a visitation by water the cave and its water-rolled and water-arranged contents were left to silence, visited by neither man nor beast.

    The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

  • The long stretches of sandy beach, the sections of shore covered with water-rolled pebbles and stones, even the steep, jagged cliffs, are all pebbled with these animals of the sea.

    Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1918

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