Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
boulder .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A large stone, worn smooth or rounded by the action of water; a large pebble.
- noun (Geol.) A mass of any rock, whether rounded or not, that has been transported by natural agencies from its native bed. See
Drift . - noun the unstratified clay deposit of the Glacial or Drift epoch, often containing large numbers of bowlders.
- noun a wall constructed of large stones or bowlders.
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- noun Dated form of
boulder .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin
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Examples
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Suppose a 600-pound bowlder which is embedded in the ground is needed for the tower of a building.
General Science Bertha M. Clark
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Only it was turnip-hudded dunce, I beg your pardon, and he would jokes bowlder — blow the betholder with his black masket off the bawling green. —
Finnegans Wake 2006
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And there, on the upper verge of the hole, raised by the leverage of the butt from the granite sand of the river-bed, I saw a great bowlder of rich yellow light.
Erema Richard Doddridge 2004
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He hid behind a great bowlder and fell to listening.
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Plate XXXIII shows one of these bowlder-marked sites which occurs a little below Limestone creek, on the opposite or eastern side of the river.
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These single rooms and small cluster remains are unusual in this region, and seem to replace the bowlder-marked ruins so common south of the East Verde (to be described more fully later).
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In the vicinity of the large ruin just above Limestone creek, previously described, the bowlder-marked sites are especially abundant.
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He managed to break off several pieces, but it was easy to see that it would take much more work to loosen the retaining ridges so that the bowlder that imprisoned them would fall outward.
Frank and Andy Afloat The Cave on the Island Vance Barnum
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It is probable that the bowlder-marked ruins are the sites of secondary and temporary structures, erected for convenience in working fields near to or overlooked by them and distant from the home pueblo.
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