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Meanings of rockbound in English

Abounding in or bordered by rocky cliffs or scarps.

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        Examples for "rock-ribbed"
        Examples for "rock-ribbed"
        1
        It proved to her that caste overcame all else In the rock-ribbed east.
        Beverly of Graustark
        2
        Various feelings had gradually stiffened an early general approval into a rock-ribbed resolve.
        Queed: A Novel
        3
        To the north spanned a soup-bowl valley ringed by rock-ribbed peaks.
        The charlemagne pursuit
        4
        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...
        5
        Was fortune going to prove unkind to the good old rock-ribbed Green Mountain State?
        The Tree of Appomattox
        Usage of rockbound in English
        1
        To the north I could see the rockbound coast of Cornwall.
        The Lost Continent
        2
        On our stern and rockbound coast, cargoes of liquor were being loaded, etc.
        The new yorker
        3
        Breaking waves dashing too high on a stern and rockbound coast.
        A Parody Outline of History / Wherein May Be Found a Curiously I...
        4
        A story of queer adventures on a rockbound island.
        The Rover Boys on the Farm; or, Last Days at Putnam Hall
        5
        All the shipwrecks in the books happen on stern and rockbound coasts and things like that.
        The Camp Fire Girls at Camp Keewaydin; Or, Paddles Down
        6
        He likes to see surging waves of hair dash high on a stern and rockbound head.
        Cobb's Anatomy
        7
        The sea that surges against that rockbound coast ever called its people out in quest of adventure.
        Hero Tales of the Far North
        8
        I picture myself living in some Norwegian sater, high above the black waters of a rockbound fiord.
        The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
        9
        From the day the Pilgrims landed on a rockbound coast, the name New Englander has suggested certain traits of character.
        Americans All / Stories of American Life of To-Day
        10
        The whole of that rockbound dungeon roared defiance in answer to her timid prayer, and snarled an ugly challenge to her courage.
        Castle Craneycrow
        11
        We should never have seen the name of Saknussemm, and we should at this moment be imprisoned on a rockbound, impassable coast.
        A Journey into the Interior of the Earth
        12
        The route led over a fine country parallel with the Nile, that still continued in a rockbound channel on the west of the march.
        The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, And Explorations of...
        13
        Dimly I could see the great mountains of waters, as with thundering roars they hurled themselves on the rockbound coast and became churned into foam.
        Roger Trewinion
        14
        To the north I could see the rockbound coast of Cornwall.
        The Lost Continent
        15
        On our stern and rockbound coast, cargoes of liquor were being loaded, etc.
        The new yorker
        16
        Breaking waves dashing too high on a stern and rockbound coast.
        A Parody Outline of History / Wherein May Be Found a Curiously I...
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