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Boul·der

(bōl′dər)

A city of north-central Colorado northwest of Denver. It is a major Rocky Mountains resort and the seat of the University of Colorado (opened 1877).

boul·der

also bowl·der (bōl′dər)

A large rounded mass of rock lying on the surface of the ground or embedded in the soil.

[Middle English bulder, of Scandinavian origin; see bhel- in Indo-European roots.]

boulder

(ˈbəʊldə)

1. (Geological Science) a smooth rounded mass of rock that has a diameter greater than 25cm and that has been shaped by erosion and transported by ice or water from its original position

2. (Geological Science) geology a rock fragment with a diameter greater than 256 mm and thus bigger than a cobble

[C13: probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Swedish dialect bullersten, from Old Swedish bulder rumbling + sten stone]

ˈbouldery adj

boul•der

(ˈboʊl dər)

n.

a detached and rounded or worn rock, esp. a large one.

[1610–20; Middle English bulderston < Scandinavian]

Boul•der

(ˈboʊl dər)

n.

a city in N Colorado. 75,990.

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Noun	1.	boulder - a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin bowlder glacial boulder - a boulder that has been carried by a glacier to a place far distant from its place of origin river boulder - a boulder that has been carried by a river to a place remote from its place of origin rock, stone - a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me" shore boulder - a boulder found on a shore remote from its place of origin
	2.	Boulder - a town in north central Colorado; Rocky Mountains resort center and university town Centennial State, Colorado, CO - a state in west central United States in the Rocky Mountains

Translations

صَخْرَه، جَلْمود

balvan

rullesten

Felsblock Geröll Stein

ŝtonego

järkälelohkare

rocher bloc

szikla: nagy szikladarab/kő

macigno

akmuoriedulys

laukakmens

kampestein rullestein

валун

balvan

kaya kütlesi/parçası

大石头巨砾

boulder

[ˈbəʊldəʳ] N → canto m rodado

boulder

[ˈbəʊldə^r] n → gros rocher m (généralement lisse, arrondi)

boulder

n → Felsblock m, → Felsbrocken m

boulder

[ˈbəʊldəʳ] n → masso, macigno

boulder

(ˈbəuldə) noun

a large rock or stone. a boulder on the hillside.

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I needed exercise, so I employed my agent in setting stranded logs and dead trees adrift, and I sat on a boulder and watched them go whirling and leaping head over heels down the boiling torrent.

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They fled down the mountain sides, leaping from boulder to boulder like bucks.

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In the centre of the space was a boulder some three or four feet high, and with a flat slab-like surface of some six feet or so.

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Hee boulder now, uncall'd before her stood; But as in gaze admiring: Oft he bowd His turret Crest, and sleek enamel'd Neck, Fawning, and lick'd the ground whereon she trod.

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So he went stumbling along now stepping into a deep hole, now stumbling over a boulder in a manner that threatened to unseat his rider or plunge them both clear under current.

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When I told the Professor he shouted in glee like a schoolboy, and after looking intently till a snow fall made sight impossible, he laid his Winchester rifle ready for use against the boulder at the opening of our shelter.

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I gather the larkspur Over the hillside, Blown mid the chaos Of boulder and bellbine; Hating the tyrant Who made me an outcast, Who of his leisure Now spares me no moment: Drinking the mountain spring, Shading at noon-day Under the cypress My limbs from the sun glare.

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The leaded windows were bright and speckless, and the door-stone was as clean as a white boulder at ebb tide.

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I go to rescue,' and Hurree, pounding down the slope, cast himself bodily upon the delighted and astonished Kim, who was banging his breathless foe's head against a boulder.

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What Kaa did not know about the Middle Jungle, as they call it,--the life that runs close to the earth or under it, the boulder, burrow, and the tree-bole life,--might have been written upon the smallest of his scales.

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On the front page of the illustrated paper I saw lying on a table near me, he looked picturesque enough, seated on a boulder, a big strong man with a square-cut beard, his hands resting on the hilt of a cavalry sabre - and all around him a landscape of savage mountains.

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There was no difficulty about the direction in which I should return for all along I had kept the little brook upon my left, and it opened into the central lake within a stone's-throw of the boulder upon which I had been lying.