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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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • 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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