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Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
an outcropping or ridge of rock, especially one that once formed the bank of a stream.
See: rimrock ((n.))(def. 1)
Quotations
1869
He hammers at the rock, / Believin' its a rim, / When ten to ane 'tis naething / But his fancy's whim. . . .
1963
The first shallow diggings gave way to drifting on bedrock, then to hydraulicking, and finally to sniping operations along the rims or on weathered bedrock.