bowlder
- a variation of boulder.
Example Sentences
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“Arr, purrum thur, that’s a noice bowlder, my beauties.”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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The leveler, being the hindmost man, rolled over this fence just as a heavy bowlder, hurled by Luke, struck the top rail.
From Hoosier Mosaics by Thompson, Maurice
He motioned her into the seat formed by the bowlder, for she seemed weak from over-excitement.
From The Lucky Piece A Tale of the North Woods by Paine, Albert Bigelow
Like a shot squirrel I dropped behind my bowlder and lay flat among the shore ferns, my heart so wild that my levelled rifle shook with the shock of palsy.
From The Little Red Foot by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
He staggered along behind the one called Rafe, and so came to an opening behind a bowlder which seemed to have been rolled by nature against the hillside.
From The Corner House Girls Snowbound by Hill, Grace Brooks