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croppings
n. (plural of cropping English)
Usage examples of "croppings".
There was a shaft sixty or seventy feet deep on the under side of the croppings, and everybody was acquainted with the rock that came from it--and tolerably rich rock it was, too, but nothing extraordinary.
Rock out croppings poked up at odd intervals in the tan and yellow ocean below, but he detected no smears of green, no water, no settlements.
They waited like ghosts in the rock out croppings outside the circle of light where Ishmael told his tales.