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noun
a detached and rounded or worn rock, especially a large one.
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Boulder
is always a great word to know.
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Example Sentences
- Each boulder problem was mentally broken into sections before he started.
- There's a trick to dislodging a raft wrapped around a boulder in the main channel of a raging river.
- Boulder depends on runoff from mountain snow, but the snowpack at lower elevations has evaporated.
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Word Origin & History
boulder
1670s, variant of M.E. bulder (c.1300), from a Scandinavian source akin to Swed. dial. bullersten "noisy stone" (large stone in a stream, causing water to roar around it), from bullra "to roar" + sten "stone." Or the first element may be from *buller- "round object," from P.Gmc. *bul-, from PIE *bhel-
EXPAND(2) "to inflate, swell" (see bole).
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