rock-bound
or rock·bound
hemmed in, enclosed, or covered by rocks; rocky: the rock-bound coast of Maine.
Origin of rock-bound
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How to use rock-bound in a sentence
It is a weird land this, which in rockbound loneliness looks out over the cultivated plain.
Lives of the Fur Folk | M. D. HavilandFor such a healer Tristan, lying dying on the desolate, rockbound coast, cries through the immortal longing of the music.
Musical Portraits | Paul RosenfeldHe likes to see surging waves of hair dash high on a stern and rockbound head.
Cobb's Anatomy | Irvin S. CobbNorth, along the Maine coast, he saw only more rocky promontories and rockbound inlets.
The Vanishing of Betty Varian | Carolyn WellsThe sea that surges against that rockbound coast ever called its people out in quest of adventure.
Hero Tales of the Far North | Jacob A. Riis
British Dictionary definitions for rock-bound
hemmed in or encircled by rocks: Also (poetic): rock-girt
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