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Meanings of rock-ribbed in English

Abounding in or bordered by rocky cliffs or scarps.

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Tradition-bound and obstinately opinionated.

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Usage of rock-ribbed in English
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It proved to her that caste overcame all else In the rock-ribbed east.
Beverly of Graustark
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Various feelings had gradually stiffened an early general approval into a rock-ribbed resolve.
Queed: A Novel
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To the north spanned a soup-bowl valley ringed by rock-ribbed peaks.
The charlemagne pursuit
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With the remainder the terrible journey across the rock-ribbed and forest-covered isthmus was begun.
Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 03 (of 15), Spanish...
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Was fortune going to prove unkind to the good old rock-ribbed Green Mountain State?
The Tree of Appomattox
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Turkey's rock-ribbed position is almost utterly antithetical to anything the Israelis might want to hear.
Reuters
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In other words, the spine is a bodily structure as old as the rock-ribbed hills.
Vitality Supreme
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Bell System employees were famous as rock-ribbed Kiwanis and Rotary members, Little-League enthusiasts, school-board people.
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The Hawke twenty wriggled and writhed, but in the end gave way-allsave a rock-ribbed quartette.
The President: A Novel
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At four o'clock a violent gale was howling over the reaches of ice and rock-ribbed land.
A Man's Woman
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The rock-ribbed and heavily wooded island belonged to Lucile's father, a fish canner of Anacortes, Washington.
The Blue Envelope
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They called to one another and listened with mute wonder at the echo among the rock-ribbed hills.
The One Woman: A Story of Modern Utopia
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From among the rock-ribbed hills of New Hampshire sprang the greatest of American orators and statesmen, Daniel Webster.
Pushing to the Front
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Old Ironsides could have been called Stone Mountain as appropriately as its neighbor, for truly it was rock-ribbed.
The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol / Or, The Story of ...
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That because the rock-ribbed Vermont ancestor's idea of duty can never be ours, we have no duty to acknowledge?
Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism [First Series]
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To descend a rock-ribbed hill, overgrown with tangled underbrush and buried in decaying tree-trunks, is hardly easier than to ascend it.
The Blue Envelope
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