Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The inclosing rock wall of a crater; as sometimes used, the steep in-face of this bounding wall.
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Examples
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He could have gone around, of course, but this was the shortest way to get to the other side of the swamp, where the marsh drained off down the side of the crater-wall into the Dhorisha Plains.
Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991
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He could have gone around, of course, but this was the shortest way to get to the other side of the swamp, where the marsh drained off down the side of the crater-wall into the Dhorisha Plains.
Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991
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Each of them is elliptical in form, and surrounded by a crater-wall.
Wonders of Creation Anonymous
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Mountainside and rocky plain, crater-wall and valley floor, alike and innumerably were pockmarked with sub-craters and with immensely yawning shell-holes, as though the whole planet had been throughout geologic ages the target of an incessant cosmic bombardment.
Galactic Patrol Smith, E. E. 1950
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Jones pointed there in the shadow of the crater-wall, and Babs moved to the switch he indicated.
Operation: Outer Space Murray Leinster 1935
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To say that a crater - wall is two thousand feet high is to say just precisely that it is two thousand feet high; but there is a vast deal more to that crater-wall than a mere statistic.
Chapter 8 1913
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Here was pasturage for the horses, but no water, and first we turned aside and picked our way across a mile of lava to a known water-hole in a crevice in the crater-wall.
Chapter 8 1913
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To say that a crater - wall is two thousand feet high is to say just precisely that it is two thousand feet high; but there is a vast deal more to that crater-wall than a mere statistic.
Chapter 8 1911
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Here was pasturage for the horses, but no water, and first we turned aside and picked our way across a mile of lava to a known water-hole in a crevice in the crater-wall.
Chapter 8 1911
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On the south side, and partly also on the east, the crater-wall has been broken down and removed; the portion remaining is about 1-1/2 mile in diameter from east to west, and reaches a height of 2,600 feet above the sea-level.
A Study of Recent Earthquakes Charles Davison 1899
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