Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word rockhole.
Examples
-
Due West of the Pillar, distant two and a half miles, situated in a scrub-covered rocky gorge, is a fair-sized rockhole.
Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885
-
Godfrey had unsuccessfully explored the neighbouring hills, while Breaden and Charlie cleaned out the rockhole with like result.
Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885
-
We had not gone far before our hopes were again raised, and again dashed, by coming on rocky ground and presently on another rockhole -- quite dry!
Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885
-
We wasted the rest of the day in fruitless search; Nature seemed to have made no effort whatever to form any such thing as a rockhole, and we saw no place where the natives had ever even dug.
Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.