rubbly

• “But they are unluckily what the quarrier would term rubbly, -- traversed by an infinity of cracks and fissures; and it is rare indeed to find a continuous mass out of which a chimney-jamb or lintel could be fashioned.”

  The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland

• “An aquifer may be a layer of gravel or sand, a layer of sandstone or cavernous limestone, a rubbly top or base of lava flows, or even a large body of massive rock, such as fractured granite, that has sizable cracks and fissures.”

  Groundwater

• “Before them a wide strip of rubbly, rocky ground sloped gently up to a natural rock palisade.”

  Fictionaut: The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna

• “He twitched his camel forward, to skid down the sand dune and out across the rubbly plain toward the finish line.”

  Fictionaut: Who Do You Say I Am

• “Finally a gorge opened into a cuplike valley to and from which there was only this one entrance and exit, marked in pines and rubbly slopes.”

  Archive 2007-09-30

• “The banyans gave way to an oppressive forest of Brazilian Peppers, and there we saw our first wildlife: a huge bobcat that stood for a moment in the rubbly remains of the road, hissing at us with its ears laid flat, then fled into the underbrush.”

  Duma Key

• “I have even got used to the lack of colour, the open expanses of rubbly desert, the dusty palm trees and the copious construction work.”

  A quick preview of my new life in Qatar

• “The desert contains a varied scenery with dunes, rubbly areas, low-lying flood planes, and occasional clumps of vegetation.”

  Archive 2007-10-01

• “It's about just 4k, so you can tell it's bumpy and rubbly.”

  CNN Transcript Mar 9, 2007

• “It's about just 4-K -- of just -- see, you can tell it's bumpy and rubbly.”

  CNN Transcript Mar 9, 2007

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