rock-bound
adjective
hemmed in, enclosed, or covered by rocks; rocky.
rockbound
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a variation of
rock-bound.
Example Sentences
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White is a rockbound New Englander who still believes that "the best thing in New York is the 5 o'clock train to Boston."
From Time Magazine Archive
The Bar Harbor elementary school, overlooking summer vacationers looking over the rockbound coast of Maine, seems an unlikely place to originate major medical news about some of the most baffling and intractable diseases of man.
From Time Magazine Archive
These rockbound bubbles of salt, one or two miles across and sometimes taller than the Rocky Mountains, are the famed salt domes of the Gulf Coast.
From Time Magazine Archive
Author Niles achieved unaccountable permission to inspect gang prisons of the mainland and individual cells on the rockbound islands.
From Time Magazine Archive
John Hiram Gilbreth died in 1871, leaving his three-year-old son, two older daughters, and a stern and rockbound widow.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
