Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A natural mass or pile of rocks.
- noun Stonework imitating the irregular surface of natural rock.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Stones fixed in mortar in imitation of the irregular surface of natural rocks, and arranged to form a mound, or constructed as a wall.
- noun A rockery; a design formed of fragments of rocks or large stones in gardens or pleasure-grounds: often forming a kind of grotto.
- noun A natural wall or mass of rock.
- noun Rock-faced or quarry-faced masonry. See
quarry-faced (with cut).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) Stonework in which the surface is left broken and rough.
- noun (Gardening) A rockery.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Ornamental work done withrocks , as for example around apond .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"rockwork," many of them swimming, or flying, or eating, surrounded by mosses and the few dried plants available for such purposes -- in fact, represented in as natural a manner as is possible under the circumstances.
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Opposite to you, is a giant figure carved in stone, reclining, with an urn, upon a lofty piece of artificial rockwork; and out of the urn, dangles the fag end of a leaden pipe, which, once upon a time, poured a small torrent down the rocks.
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So I went along by the side of it, and came to a corner and a rockwork that enabled me to get to the top, and tumble into the garden I coveted.
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Selecting a narrow taper from a small box affixed to the rockwork, he stuck it into the flames until it acquired one of its own, then touched the flickering tip to the bowl of the pipe.
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Selecting a narrow taper from a small box affixed to the rockwork, he stuck it into the flames until it acquired one of its own, then touched the flickering tip to the bowl of the pipe.
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Same thing goes for the masonry and rockwork in the foundations.
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Same thing goes for the masonry and rockwork in the foundations.
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Same thing goes for the masonry and rockwork in the foundations.
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She'd done some rockwork for sport, but that had been a different matter from this wild, swaying ride along what was turning into a precipitous cliff.
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Victorian style, with wriggling paths, and ribbon borders, and shrubs planted meaninglessly here and there about the lawn, and a dreadful piece of sham rockwork in one corner.
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