Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In physical geography, a basin or hollow in a rock.
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Examples
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They showed us their hidden, rock-basin mountain lake a mile from town, and we repaired pipelines so the town once again had gravity-fed water.
Our American King David Lozell martin 2007
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They showed us their hidden, rock-basin mountain lake a mile from town, and we repaired pipelines so the town once again had gravity-fed water.
Our American King David Lozell martin 2007
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They showed us their hidden, rock-basin mountain lake a mile from town, and we repaired pipelines so the town once again had gravity-fed water.
Our American King David Lozell martin 2007
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They showed us their hidden, rock-basin mountain lake a mile from town, and we repaired pipelines so the town once again had gravity-fed water.
Our American King David Lozell martin 2007
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Taking turn and turn about with the pail, they bailed out the rock-basin, scattering the water upon the greedy sand.
Average Jones Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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They looked down into a rock-basin of wild and curious beauty.
Average Jones Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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The territory in the rock-basin, amounting to about twenty acres, I divided equally between them.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction Various 1910
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For an interminable time he waited, only noting the slow swing of the narrow shadow as the morning sun, flooding the rock-basin, rose in majestic course.
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Yet, from its position, it may be a plication-hollow, or a trough produced by the formation of two parallel mountain ridges, and afterward modified by glacial agency, instead of a pure glacial-scooped rock-basin.
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It was in a wide street opening on a splendid square, and pillars were before the houses, and inside there was the enchantment of a little fountain playing thin as whipcord, among ferns, in a rock-basin under a window that glowed with kings of England, copied from boys 'history books.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868
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