Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A natural mass or pile of rocks.
- noun Stonework imitating the irregular surface of natural rock.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Stones fixed in mortar in imitation of the irregular surface of natural rocks, and arranged to form a mound, or constructed as a wall.
- noun A rockery; a design formed of fragments of rocks or large stones in gardens or pleasure-grounds: often forming a kind of grotto.
- noun A natural wall or mass of rock.
- noun Rock-faced or quarry-faced masonry. See
quarry-faced (with cut).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) Stonework in which the surface is left broken and rough.
- noun (Gardening) A rockery.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Ornamental work done withrocks , as for example around apond .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"rockwork," many of them swimming, or flying, or eating, surrounded by mosses and the few dried plants available for such purposes -- in fact, represented in as natural a manner as is possible under the circumstances.
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Opposite to you, is a giant figure carved in stone, reclining, with an urn, upon a lofty piece of artificial rockwork; and out of the urn, dangles the fag end of a leaden pipe, which, once upon a time, poured a small torrent down the rocks.
Pictures from Italy 2007
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So I went along by the side of it, and came to a corner and a rockwork that enabled me to get to the top, and tumble into the garden I coveted.
The War of the Worlds Herbert George 2006
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Selecting a narrow taper from a small box affixed to the rockwork, he stuck it into the flames until it acquired one of its own, then touched the flickering tip to the bowl of the pipe.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999
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Selecting a narrow taper from a small box affixed to the rockwork, he stuck it into the flames until it acquired one of its own, then touched the flickering tip to the bowl of the pipe.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999
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Same thing goes for the masonry and rockwork in the foundations.
For Love of Mother-Not Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983
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Same thing goes for the masonry and rockwork in the foundations.
For Love of Mother-Not Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983
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Same thing goes for the masonry and rockwork in the foundations.
For Love Of Mother Not Foster, Alan Dean 1983
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She'd done some rockwork for sport, but that had been a different matter from this wild, swaying ride along what was turning into a precipitous cliff.
The Lion Game Schmitz, James 1976
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Victorian style, with wriggling paths, and ribbon borders, and shrubs planted meaninglessly here and there about the lawn, and a dreadful piece of sham rockwork in one corner.
Austin and His Friends Frederic H. Balfour
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