Crossword clues for boulder
boulder
- Rock that may be hard to roll
- City that, despite its name, is smaller than Little Rock
- A large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin
- A town in north central Colorado
- Rocky Mountains resort center and university town
- Obstruction at the entrance to a cave, maybe
- Plymouth Rock, e.g.
- City near the world's highest dam
- Large rock
- Rock bass getting louder when played
- Colorado city
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bowlder \Bowl"der\, Boulder \Boul"der\, n. [Cf. Sw. bullra to roar, rattle, Dan. buldre, dial. Sw. bullersteen larger kind of pebbles; perh. akin to E. bellow.]
A large stone, worn smooth or rounded by the action of water; a large pebble.
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(Geol.) A mass of any rock, whether rounded or not, that has been transported by natural agencies from its native bed. See Drift.
Bowlder clay, the unstratified clay deposit of the Glacial or Drift epoch, often containing large numbers of bowlders.
Bowlder wall, a wall constructed of large stones or bowlders.
Boulder \Boul"der\ (b[=o]l"d[~e]r), n. Same as Bowlder.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, variant of Middle English bulder (c.1300), from a Scandinavian source akin to Swedish dialectal bullersten "noisy stone" (large stone in a stream, causing water to roar around it), from bullra "to roar" + sten "stone." Or the first element might be from *buller- "round object," from Proto-Germanic *bul-, from PIE *bhel- (2) "to inflate, swell" (see bole).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A large mass of stone detached from the surrounding land. 2 (context geology English) A particle greater than 256 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale vb. To engage in bouldering
WordNet
n. a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin [syn: bowlder]
a town in north central Colorado; Rocky Mountains resort center and university town
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 28
Land area (2000): 1.301509 sq. miles (3.370893 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.301509 sq. miles (3.370893 sq. km)
FIPS code: 09235
Located within: Wyoming (WY), FIPS 56
Location: 42.748164 N, 109.712828 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 82923
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Boulder
Housing Units (2000): 568
Land area (2000): 1.137662 sq. miles (2.946530 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.137662 sq. miles (2.946530 sq. km)
FIPS code: 08575
Located within: Montana (MT), FIPS 30
Location: 46.236300 N, 112.121823 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 59632
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Boulder
Housing Units (2000): 40726
Land area (2000): 24.374601 sq. miles (63.129925 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.996658 sq. miles (2.581332 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 25.371259 sq. miles (65.711257 sq. km)
FIPS code: 07850
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 40.019425 N, 105.259502 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 80301 80302 80303 80304
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Headwords:
Boulder
Housing Units (2000): 102
Land area (2000): 20.918639 sq. miles (54.179024 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 20.918639 sq. miles (54.179024 sq. km)
FIPS code: 07470
Located within: Utah (UT), FIPS 49
Location: 37.924329 N, 111.426240 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 84716
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Headwords:
Boulder
Housing Units (2000): 119900
Land area (2000): 742.460123 sq. miles (1922.962810 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 8.911620 sq. miles (23.080988 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 751.371743 sq. miles (1946.043798 sq. km)
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 40.058094 N, 105.195154 W
Headwords:
Boulder, CO
Boulder County
Boulder County, CO
Wikipedia
In geology, a boulder is a rock fragment with size greater than in diameter. Smaller pieces are called cobbles and pebbles, depending on their " grain size". While a boulder may be small enough to move or roll manually, others are extremely massive. In common usage, a boulder is too large for a person to move. Smaller boulders are usually just called rocks or stones. The word boulder is short for boulder stone, from Middle English bulderston or Swedish bullersten.
In places covered by ice sheets during Ice Ages, such as Scandinavia, northern North America, and Russia, glacial erratics are common. Erratics are boulders picked up by the ice sheet during its advance, and deposited during its retreat. They are called "erratic" because they typically are of a different rock type than the bedrock on which they are deposited. One of them is used as the pedestal of the Bronze Horseman in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Some noted rock formations involve giant boulders exposed by erosion, such as the Devil's Marbles in Australia's Northern Territory, the Horeke basalts in New Zealand, where an entire valley contains only boulders, and The Baths on the island of Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands.
Boulder sized clasts are found in some sedimentary rocks, such as coarse conglomerate and boulder clay.
The climbing of large boulders is called bouldering.
A boulder is a large rock.
Boulder may also refer to:
Boulder, released on January 26, 2005, is the seventh original album by the Japanese band m.o.v.e. The catalogue code for this album is AVCT-10152/B with a bonus DVD, and AVCT-10153 without one. "DOGFIGHT" and "Noizy Tribe" were both featured as opening theme songs for Initial D: Fourth Stage, with the former also being featured as the opening theme song for Initial D: Street Stage, while "Nobody reason～ノアの方舟" was used as one of the ending songs.
Boulder were an American rock band. The ensemble formed in 1992 in Ohio. Members of the group had previously played in hardcore punk bands and were heavily influenced by the new wave of British heavy metal. Before releasing their debut album, The Rage of It All, they had toured in several clubs in Ohio. The group's bassist, Jamie Walters, would later play for Destructor and Midnight.
Heavy metal journalist, Ian Christe, described the group as followed:
Usage examples of "boulder".
So the aerolites, or glacial boulders, or polished stone weapons of an extinct race, which looked like aerolites, were the children of Ouranos the heaven, and had souls in them.
But Georgiana saw the light-green moss that clung to the humus, the yellowish fronds of ivy that swept along the ground, the aquamarine moss that dressed up the boulders.
He put his ear to the ground briefly, then arose and crept into the space between two boulders where he could not be seen except from the trail directly below.
They are below the boulder, and Dougal and Eileen can now climb over it and belay Frances again.
Beauties and Curiosities of the district as we passed them, the Ingenuity of the Bowder Stone, the Beauties of the River Derwent, a wood above the river where not so long back they drowned a Witch, but I will not detain you with these, knowing, dearest Pelham, your Unmitigated Impatience with anything that has not to do with a graceful Ankle or a Pack of Cards, and so proceeding over the Wildest Country, all Horrid Boulders and Little Trees growing in grotesque profusion, we approached at length the village of Rosthwaite.
A day or two later, having traced the edges of the mountains in either direction for a great distance, Bozo returned to the mouth of the pass and threw himself down, panting, in the shade of the boulders.
Keoke had taken advantage of his position as most senior dragon present to order the confinement, pointing out that the boulder they used to stop up the entrance to the cavelet was too large for even Father Dragon to move.
I would drive to Centennial as soon as my classes ended, establish contacts with the Denver Public Library, which was some fifty miles away, introduce myself to the faculties at Greeley, Fort Collins and Boulder, and prepare research reports on what had actually happened at Centennial during its history, which had started only in 1844 with the arrival of Zendt and one of the mountain men.
Angus led the old garron to the place called Clachan Knowe where big erratic boulders sprouted from the heather like henge-stones.
Shapers sent avalanches down to bury the columns, or warriors tumbled boulders on them, still when the dust had cleared the horde pressed on, clambering over stone and corpses alike.
Chief Coleopteroid settled back on his boulder, and his thoughts did the same.
In a flash, Coll realized what had happened, realized it even as he leaped back among the boulders of his hill and scrambled to get out of sight.
The floor of the coulee was littered with small boulders and dead brush that had washed down during heavy rains.
I lay limp, past shivering, beside a boulder, while the Gray Watcher covered me with a cowhide we carried with us on all our journeys.
The Gray Watcher had flung the cowhide over the two boulders and created a sheltered spot between them.