boulder
noun
a detached and rounded or worn rock, especially a large one.
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
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 Grace Brooks Hill
A heap of snow which they had thought concealed a bowlder, exposed by its melting an old flat-bottomed skiff, turned upside down, and under it lay a torn sail, with its mast.
From The Ice Queen by Ernest Ingersoll
She climbed up on the bowlder and sat down beside him.
From The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona by Cora Marsland
She found herself presently behind a big bowlder.
From Ann Boyd by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben
