rock-bound

or rock·bound

[ rok-bound ]
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adjective
  1. hemmed in, enclosed, or covered by rocks; rocky: the rock-bound coast of Maine.

Origin of rock-bound

1
First recorded in 1830–40

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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. Haviland
  • For such a healer Tristan, lying dying on the desolate, rockbound coast, cries through the immortal longing of the music.

    Musical Portraits | Paul Rosenfeld
  • He likes to see surging waves of hair dash high on a stern and rockbound head.

    Cobb's Anatomy | Irvin S. Cobb
  • North, along the Maine coast, he saw only more rocky promontories and rockbound inlets.

  • The sea that surges against that rockbound coast ever called its people out in quest of adventure.

British Dictionary definitions for rock-bound

rock-bound

adjective
  1. hemmed in or encircled by rocks: Also (poetic): rock-girt

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