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Definition of Rockbound
1. Adjective. Abounding in or bordered by rocky cliffs or scarps. "The rock-ribbed coast of Maine"
Definition of Rockbound
1. Adjective. surrounded by rocks ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rockbound
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rockbound
Literary usage of Rockbound
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1895)
"Occasionally, large rockbound areas are found, covered with moose- brush, and
here and there, sometimes clinging to almost vertical hillsides and often ..."
2. Observations by Mr. Dooley by Finley Peter Dunne (1902)
"'Twas diff'rent whin I was dashed high on th' stern an' rockbound coast. In thim
days America was th' refuge iv th' oppressed iv all th' ..."
3. Fruit-growing in Arid Regions: An Account of Approved Fruit-growing by Wendell Paddock, Orville Blaine Whipple (1910)
"What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of 3000 miles,
rockbound, cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? ..."
4. The Gold Placers of Parts of Seward Peninsula, Alaska: Including the Nome by Arthur James Collier, Frank Lee Hess, Philip S. Smith, Alfred Hulse Brooks (1908)
"Within them the streams have low grades and flow \vith tortuous courses, but
below them flow through narrow canyon- like—often rockbound—valleys, ..."
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