bowlder

English

Noun

bowlder (plural bowlders)

1. Dated form of boulder.
   • 1900, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, The Doomswoman‎^[1]:

     Between was the wild valley where cattle grazed among the trees and the massive bowlders.

   • 1913, B. M. Bower, The Gringos‎^[2]:

     His back humped; like a bowlder hurled down a mountain slope he made his rush, and nothing could swerve him.

   • 1920, Harold Bindloss, Lister's Great Adventure‎^[3]:

     The trees on the summit bent in the wind; spray leaped about the bowlders where the white foam rolled.

   • 1924, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 6, in Tarzan and the Ant Men‎^[4], 1st edition:

     The first step in the construction was to outline the periphery of the base with bowlders of uniform size and weighing, perhaps, fifty pounds each.

Derived terms

• bowldery

 

Anagrams

• Bowdler, low-bred, lowbred