rimrock
Americannoun
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rock forming the natural boundary of a plateau or other rise.
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bedrock forming the natural boundary of a placer or of a gravel deposit.
noun
Etymology
Origin of rimrock
Example Sentences
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Get away from those sticky oilmen who can hear a dollar bill fall on the rimrock — men who would watch the world burn to increase their profits.
From Washington Post • May 23, 2018
The Deschutes’s native rainbow trout take notice of the salmon flies’ arrival among the river’s rimrock walls.
From New York Times • May 11, 2013
Barely 10 a.m., yet it seemed the entire sector--a classic Western landscape of rimrock, saguaro and sage--was already swimming with fishy activity.
From Time Magazine Archive
New England's sumac was already scarlet; and below the snow-dusted rimrock of the high Rockies, aspen gleamed like brass.
From Time Magazine Archive
He stood on the edge of the rimrock and looked down below: the canyons and valleys were thick powdery black; their variations of height and depth were marked by a thinner black color.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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