Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mining, parts still remaining of the edges of the channels which the old or Tertiary rivers wore away in the bed-rock, and within which the auriferous detritus was accumulated.
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Examples
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Three miles in the teeth of the gale to Crater Lake, across two glaciers, along the slippery rim-rock, knee-deep in a howling river!
SIWASH 2010
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This gave him a block of property two thousand feet long and extending in width from rim-rock to rim-rock.
Chapter X 2010
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Whoever heard of mining a moose-pasture half a mile between rim-rock and God alone knows how far to bed-rock!
Chapter X 2010
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I panned it, all in that sack, yesterday, on the rim-rock.
Chapter X 2010
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But in the rim-rock area of the southwest, very ancient underlyingbasement granites are exposed.
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Relief sighed through him as Jordanna crested the rim-rock and started down the slope.
Ride the Thunder Janet Dailey 1980
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Relief sighed through him as Jordanna crested the rim-rock and started down the slope.
Ride the Thunder Janet Dailey 1980
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Relief sighed through him as Jordanna crested the rim-rock and started down the slope.
Ride the Thunder Janet Dailey 1980
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Relief sighed through him as Jordanna crested the rim-rock and started down the slope.
Ride the Thunder Janet Dailey 1980
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Straightening his six feet of bone and muscle, the cattleman stood up and stepped to the extreme edge of the rim-rock, with hardened countenance and gleaming eyes.
Hidden Gold Wilder Anthony
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