bowlder
English
Noun
bowlder
(
plural
bowlders
)
Dated form of
boulder
.
1900
, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton,
The Doomswoman
:
Between was the wild valley where cattle grazed among the trees and the massive
bowlders
.
1913
, B. M. Bower,
The Gringos
:
His back humped
;
like a
bowlder
hurled down a mountain slope he made his rush, and nothing could swerve him.
1920
, Harold Bindloss,
Lister's Great Adventure
:
The trees on the summit bent in the wind
;
spray leaped about the
bowlders
where the white foam rolled.
1924
, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 6, in
Tarzan and the Ant Men
, 1st edition:
The first step in the construction was to outline the periphery of the base with
bowlders
of uniform size and weighing, perhaps, fifty pounds each.
Anagrams
Bowdler
,
low-bred
,
lowbred
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