rock-bound
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of rock-bound
First recorded in 1830–40
Example Sentences
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It might also be the reaction product of water, rock-bound minerals, and ultraviolet radiation.
From The Verge ● Dec. 17, 2014
New Englanders who pride themselves on their conservative shrewdness and rock-bound individualism think they recognize him as one of themselves; and poets know he is a poet.
From Time Magazine Archive
Behind their mountain bastions the gaunt, weather-beaten, philosophic Montenegrins, mostly shepherds and tillers of sparse, rock-bound little fields, staved off the furious Turks for 500 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
Later, small, sparrowlike John Sloan left the city and painted in rock-bound Gloucester and puebloed Santa Fe.
From Time Magazine Archive
Peter had taken a short cut up the steep rock-bound side of the hill.
From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford
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