Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The name given in Ceylon to a rock which is there extensively used as a building-stone.
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Examples
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Ratnapoora, with the difference that the granite and gneiss here crumbled down to a coarse sand, which was again bound together by newly-formed hydrated peroxide of iron to a peculiar porous sandstone, called by the natives _cabook_.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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The _cabook_ often contains large, rounded, unweathered granite blocks, quite resembling the rolled-stone blocks in Sweden.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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Precious stones have been found disseminated in limited numbers in the granite converted into _cabook_.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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When in the course of thousands of years streams of water have flowed over the layers of _cabook_, their soft, already half-weathered constituents have been for the most part changed into a fine mud, and as such washed away, while the hard gems have only been inconsiderably rounded and little diminished in size.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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In this way there arise at places where the _cabook_ stratum has again been broken up and washed away by currents of water, formations which are so bewilderingly like the ridges (_osar_) and hills with erratic blocks in Sweden and Finland that I was astonished when I saw them.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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In it rice is the chief article produced, and for its cultivation the disintegrated laterite (_cabook_), when thoroughly irrigated, is sufficiently adapted.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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_cabook_ of Ceylon would certainly yield very unexpected contributions to an explanation of the way in which the sand and rolled-stone _osar_ of Scandinavia have first arisen.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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