Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Worn by the action of water; especially, smoothed by the force or action of running water, or water in motion: as, water-worn pebbles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Worn, smoothed, or polished by the action of water.
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- adjective
Worn orsmoothed by the action ofwater .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of rocks especially) worn smooth by the action of water
Etymologies
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Examples
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Through the bowels of the Great Alpine Reef, they spun, slipping along the smooth, waterworn sides.
The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004
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Through the bowels of the Great Alpine Reef, they spun, slipping along the smooth, waterworn sides.
The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004
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Through the bowels of the Great Alpine Reef, they spun, slipping along the smooth, waterworn sides.
The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004
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The blocks are not waterworn, their angles being only a little blunted; they vary in size from one or two feet in diameter to ten, or even more than twenty times as much.
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On these rounded off banks or bergs of forest land, Youranigh drew my attention to large, old, waterworn, trunks of trees, which he showed me had been deposited there by floods.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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The blocks are not waterworn, their angles being only a little blunted; they vary in size from one or two feet in diameter to ten, or even more than twenty times as much.
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Other portions of woods had their ends waterworn, and were full of long cracks, such as appear in wood long exposed to the sun.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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It consisted of a yellow sandstone in thin strata, covered in some parts with beds of waterworn pebbles.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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Amongst the waterworn pebbles in the bed of the river, we found various portions of coal and the rocky sections in parts of the banks resembled its concomitant strata.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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The rounded, waterworn stones made the surface treacherous and slippery and difficult to negotiate.
THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK VONDA N.MCINTYRE 1990
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