Word Finder - rock

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A formation of minerals, specifically:

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A large hill or island having no vegetation.

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Pearl Rock near Cape Cod is so named because the morning sun makes it gleam like a pearl.

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Something that is strong, stable, and dependable; a person who provides security or support to another.

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A lump or cube of ice.

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I'll have a whisky on the rocks, please.

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A type of confectionery made from sugar in the shape of a stick, traditionally having some text running through its length.

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While we're in Brighton, let's get a stick of rock!

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A crystallized lump of crack cocaine.

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• candy
• crack rock

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An unintelligent person, especially one who repeats mistakes.

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An Afrikaner.

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An extremely conservative player who is willing to play only the very strongest hands.

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Any of several fish:

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A basketball.

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Yo homie, pass the rock!

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(rock paper scissors) A closed hand (a handshape resembling a rock), that beats scissors and loses to paper. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.

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A cricket ball, especially a new one that has not been softened by use

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A crystal used to control the radio frequency.

The bottom was solid rock covered with fine sand.

I felt the great billows rock and sink.

In the background were the beautiful layered mountains of the White Rock Wildlife Management.

She glanced around at the rock outcroppings.

Not far from the camp, they reached a rock outcropping.

I have often held in my hand a little model of the Plymouth Rock which a kind gentleman gave me at Pilgrim Hall, and I have fingered its curves, the split in the centre and the embossed figures "1620," and turned over in my mind all that I knew about the wonderful story of the Pilgrims.

Davis gulped the last of his coffee and turned the cup up side down on a rock so it would drain.

He removed his hand and they moved back against the rock wall of lava that swirled over them.

The buggy bounced over a rock and she clutched his arm to keep from falling off.

The creek flowed over a succession of rock ledges and formed pools at the edge where tadpoles swam.

I was more interested, I think, in the great rock on which the Pilgrims landed than in anything else in Plymouth.

But, unfortunately, I struck my foot on a rock and fell forward into the cold water.

He led her to a large mossy rock that was etched with a name and date.

They stopped at a rock wall.

The breakers would swoop back to gather themselves for a mightier leap, and I clung to the rock, tense, fascinated, as I felt the dash and roar of the rushing sea!

A small rock trickled down, bouncing and skipping before stopping by Dean's shoe—the slight noise was a rumble in the mountain stillness.

It is thrown across the gorge at a height of two hundred and fifty-eight feet above the water and is supported on each bank by towers of solid rock, which are eight hundred feet apart.

Bordeaux stepped from behind the rock and called to the Indians.

A rope was tied around a rock nearby.

I've found old rock fences, and there's an old log cabin falling into ruins not too far from here.

A large rock beside the road provided a place to rest while she listened for vehicles.

Her fall was brutally interrupted by a rock ledge about five feet down.

After examining a rock for ants or other insects, she leaned against it, drawing in the clean smell of the forest.

She slid down the rock and joined them, casting a sour look at Bordeaux as she brushed by him.

And God kept multiplying and multiplying 'em and feeding this whole field of people, like at a rock concert.

When at last they arrived at the trail's end, Westlake parked, placed a rock behind his wheel, and held out his polka-dot umbrella.

She flattened against the rock wall as she heard the horse scramble down into the ravine a little way down from her.

He waded out of the water and laid his socks and shirt on a rock in the sun to dry.

You're not a rock.

I did see the rock in Plymouth and a little ship like the Mayflower and the cradle that dear little Peregrine slept in and many old things that came in the Mayflower.

As the afternoon dwindled, the Deans were content to rock and ruminate.

Jared was pale and propped against a rock.

She searched around and found a large rock.

She picked up a rock and threw it into the center of the gateway.

Her father had discovered the rock cluster shortly after he bought the land.

Lift the far side of the rock toward you.

Of the stage nothing but cuttings in the rock for foundations are visible.

The only fairly complete anthropoid statue known is the much-defaced " Niobe " at Suratlu Tash, engaged in the rock behind.

Without exception the rock inscriptions have proved to be Numidic. In two of the islands (Teneriffe and Gomera) the Guanche type has been retained with more purity than in the others.

This is derived from the sap of the rock or sugar maple (Ater saccharinum), a large tree growing in Canada and the United States.

The landscape is rich and beautiful, varied with grand rock scenery, the coast-line being broken by numerous small bays, into which flow streams rarely navigable even for short distances, but often skilfully utilized by the natives for irrigation; and sometimes flowing in subterranean channels.

Moreover where there was no transport or solution of the soil thus produced it would necessarily show some similarity in composition to the rock on which it rested.

In many parts of the country soils exhibiting such relationships, and known as sedentary soils, are prevalent, the transition from the soil to the rock beneath being plainly visible in sections exposed to view in railway cuttings, quarries and other excavations.

On descending into the substratum the finer material decreases and more stones are met with; farther down are seen larger fragments of unaltered rock closely packed, and this brash or rubble grades insensibly into the unbroken rock below.

In many districts the soil is manifestly unconnected in origin with the rock on which it rests, and differs from it in colour, composition and other characters.

On the stiff soils overl y ing the chalk it was formerly the custom to dig pits through the soil to the rock below.

In this manner poor peats and sands may be covered with a large layer of rock soil capable of growing excellent crops.

The conglomerate consists of rock fragments, sodium chloride and various sulphates, cemented together by gypsum to form a hard compact mass 6 to 10 ft.

This identification has been confirmed by the discovery of a series of boundary inscriptions, apparently marking the limit of the city's lands, which have been found cut in rock - outcrops partly surrounding the site.

Dunluce Castle, between Portrush and Bushmills, stands on a rock separated from the mainland by a chasm which is spanned by a bridge.