scree

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Each of its four movements is titled after geological formations, and scree is a cascade of rocks and shale on a steep mountain slope.

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  1. noun Loose rock debris covering a slope.
  2. noun A slope of loose rock debris at the base of a steep incline or cliff.

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  • The trail passed through scree, and the sound of shifting rock announced my arrival while I was still high above the lake. —  F ;SF; - vol 093 issue 04-05 - October-November 1997
  • But to Tura and Bel, standing before their scree-covered lower slopes, they were formidable heights indeed. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • According to the two scraps of tape, the path led down a scree-and-alder-choked side of a ravine cut through the rock of the mountain's flank. —  Blood Lure
  • For their siestas they dug beds in the scree or the snow. —  Blood Lure
  • As he lowered again to push through the rubble of the wash and scree, a rock the size of a melon struck him in the shoulder, knocking him to the boulder-strewn ground. —  Witch Fire.htm
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  1. Probably ultimately from Old Norse skridha, landslide, from skrīdha, to slide.

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  1. from Icelandic skritha (= Swedish Danish skred), a landslip on a hillside (frequent in Icelandic local names, as Skritha, Skrithu-klaustr, Skrith-dalr, etc.; skrithu-fall, an avalanche), from skrītha, creep, crawl, move, glide, = Anglo-Saxon scrīthan, go: see scrithe.
  2. A dial. abbreviation of screen.
 

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