英和和英

名詞

bowlder (plural bowlders)

1. Dated spelling of boulder.
   • 1900, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, The Doomswoman‎:

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

   • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 160:

     Here lay a desolate valley—a shallow, narrow valley dotted with stunted trees and covered with many great bowlders.

   • 1913, B. M. Bower, The Gringos‎:

     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:

     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, 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.