Bed rock () The solid rock underlying superficial formations. Also Fig. |
Buttress (n.) A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry. |
Buttress (n.) Anything which supports or strengthens. |
Buttress (v. t.) To support with a buttress |
Crag (n.) A steep, rugged rock |
Crag (n.) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age. |
Crag (n.) The neck or throat |
Crag (n.) The neck piece or scrag of mutton. |
Craig flounder () The pole flounder. |
Rock (n.) See Roc. |
Rock (n.) A distaff used in spinning |
Rock (n.) A large concreted mass of stony material |
Rock (n.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds. |
Rock (n.) That which resembles a rock in firmness |
Rock (n.) Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock. |
Rock (n.) The striped bass. See under Bass. |
Rock (v. t.) To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath |
Rock (v. t.) To move as in a cradle |
Rock (v. i.) To move or be moved backward and forward |
Rock (v. i.) To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support |
Rock shaft () A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines |
Rock staff (v. i.) An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge. |
Spur (n.) A sparrow. |
Spur (n.) A tern. |
Spur (n.) An implement secured to the heel, or above the heel, of a horseman, to urge the horse by its pressure. Modern spurs have a small wheel, or rowel, with short points. Spurs were the badge of knighthood. |
Spur (n.) That which goads to action |
Spur (n.) Something that projects |
Spur (n.) One of the large or principal roots of a tree. |
Spur (n.) Any stiff, sharp spine, as on the wings and legs of certain burds, on the legs of insects, etc. |
Spur (n.) A mountain that shoots from any other mountain, or range of mountains, and extends to some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles. |
Spur (n.) A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale, to strip off the blubber. |
Spur (n.) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, as a rafter or crossbeam |
Spur (n.) The short wooden buttress of a post. |
Spur (n.) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage. |
Spur (n.) Any projecting appendage of a flower looking like a spur. |
Spur (n.) Ergotized rye or other grain. |
Spur (n.) A wall that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall. |
Spur (n.) A piece of timber fixed on the bilge ways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side. |
Spur (n.) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam can not be placed. |
Spur (v. t.) To prick with spurs |
Spur (v. t.) To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object |
Spur (v. t.) To put spurs on |
Spur (v. i.) To spur on one' horse |
Spur-royal (n.) A gold coin, first made in the reign of Edward IV., having a star on the reverse resembling the rowel of a spur. In the reigns of Elizabeth and of James I., its value was fifteen shillings. |
Spur-shell (n.) Any one of several species of handsome gastropod shells of the genus Trochus, or Imperator. The shell is conical, with the margin toothed somewhat like the rowel of a spur. |
Spur-winged (a.) Having one or more spurs on the bend of the wings. |
rock climbing | the sport or pastime of scaling rock masses on mountain sides (especially with the help of ropes and special equipment) |
rock careen sway tilt | pitching dangerously to one side |
cock of the rock Rupicola rupicola | tropical bird of northern South America the male having brilliant red or orange plumage and an erectile disklike crest |
cock of the rock Rupicola peruviana | bird of the Andes similar to Rupicola rupicola |
rock wren Salpinctes obsoletus | wren inhabiting badlands and mesa country of western United States and Mexico |
rock wren Xenicus gilviventris | short-tailed bird resembling a wren |
rock python rock snake Python sebae | very large python of tropical and southern Africa |
rock rattlesnake Crotalus lepidus | mountain rock dweller of Mexico and most southern parts of United States southwest |
Plymouth Rock | an American breed of domestic fowl |
Rock Cornish | small plump hybrid developed by crossbreeding Plymouth Rock and Cornish fowl |
Greek partridge rock partridge Alectoris graeca | of mountainous areas of southern Europe |
rock dove rock pigeon Columba livia | pale grey Eurasian pigeon having black-striped wings from which most domestic species are descended |
rock wallaby rock kangaroo | slender long-legged Australian wallabies living in caves and rocky areas |
rock crab Cancer irroratus | crab of eastern coast of North America |
spiny lobster langouste rock lobster crawfish crayfish sea crawfish | large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters |
acorn barnacle rock barnacle Balanus balanoides | barnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zones |
rock hopper crested penguin | small penguin of the Falkland Islands and New Zealand |
pika mouse hare rock rabbit coney cony | small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America |
rock squirrel Citellus variegatus | large grey ground squirrel of rocky areas of the southwestern United States |
rock hyrax rock rabbit Procavia capensis | hyrax that lives in rocky areas |
rock bass rock sunfish Ambloplites rupestris | game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes |
rock sea bass rock bass Centropristis philadelphica | a kind of sea bass |
rock hind Epinephelus adscensionis | found around rocky coasts or on reefs |
rock beauty Holocanthus tricolor | gold and black butterflyfish found from West Indies to Brazil |
rock gunnel butterfish Pholis gunnellus | slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters |
bore bit borer rock drill stone drill | a drill for penetrating rock |
branch line spur track spur | a railway line connected to a trunk line |
buttress buttressing | a support usually of stone or brick, supports the wall of a building |
flying buttress arc-boutant | a buttress that stands apart from the main structure and connected to it by an arch |
rock bit roller bit | a drill bit that has hardened rotating rollers |
rock garden rockery | a garden featuring rocks, usually alpine plants |
spur gad | a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward, cowboys know not to squat with their spurs on |
spur gear spur wheel | gear wheels that mesh in the same plane |
rock opera | albums of rock music that aspired to the status of art, first appeared in the s |
rock concert | a performance of rock music |
rock 'n' roll rock'n'roll rock-andoll rock and roll rock rock music | a genre of popular music originating in the s, a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western, rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock'n'roll. |
progressive rock art rock | a style of rock music that emerged in the s, associated with attempts to combine rock with jazz and other forms, intended for listening and not dancing |
psychedelic rock acid rock | a musical style that emerged in the s, rock music inspired by or related to drug-induced experience |
punk rock punk | rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation, in part a reaction against progressive rock |
goad goading prod prodding urging spur spurring | a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something, the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves |
rock candy | sugar in large hard clear crystals on a string |
rock candy rock | hard brightolored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint) |
rock cake | a small cake with a hard surface said to resemble a rock |
Rock Cornish hen | flesh of a small fowl bred for roasting |
spiny lobster langouste rock lobster crayfish | warm-water lobsters without claws, those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails, caught also in Florida and California |
rock salmon | any of several coarse fishes (such as dogfish or wolffish) when used as food |
rock group rock band | a band of musicians who play rock'n'roll music |
rock bottom | the absolute bottom |
Gibraltar Rock of Gibraltar Calpe | location of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain, strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean, one of the Pillars of Hercules |
Little Rock capital of Arkansas | the state capital and largest city of Arkansas in the central part of Arkansas on the Arkansas River |