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- noun Alternative spelling of
rock hound .
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Examples
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Forty-five years of marriage, Alma would announce, and now he had decided to become a lunatic rockhound?
Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010
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Forty-five years of marriage, Alma would announce, and now he had decided to become a lunatic rockhound?
Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010
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Darwin, the man who would almost singlehandedly redefine biological science, started out as an amateur naturalist, a beetle collector, a rockhound, a 22-year-old rich-kid dilettante who, after flirting with the idea of being first a physician and then a preacher, was allowed to ship out with the Beagle as someone who might supply good conversation at the captain's table.
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Geikie did the classic thing: picking up fossils as a kid and becoming an obsessive rockhound thereafter.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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Geikie did the classic thing: picking up fossils as a kid and becoming an obsessive rockhound thereafter.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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I remember I woke once to Kid Kolmer's drowsy moaning, and another time to Diamond Jim's hacking, rockhound cough.
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I remember I woke once to Kid Kolmer's drowsy moaning, and another time to Diamond Jim's hacking, rockhound cough.
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It was there, on the blue ice surface of the Allan Hills Far Western icefield, in the area dubbed the Pinnacles for its wind-sculpted, surreal ice blocks, that Roberta Score spied a rock that would make her the most widely known Antarctic rockhound in history.
The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996
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It was there, on the blue ice surface of the Allan Hills Far Western icefield, in the area dubbed the Pinnacles for its wind-sculpted, surreal ice blocks, that Roberta Score spied a rock that would make her the most widely known Antarctic rockhound in history.
The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996
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Thomas, 69, an inveterate rockhound and chin-wagger, works old and new mine sites with his nephew, Matt Housley.
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