DCHP-3

rimrock ((n.))

Esp. West
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

an outcropping or ridge of rock, especially one that once formed the bank of a stream.

See: rim

Quotations

1860
There is every reason to believe that it is equal to the hill-diggings in California, because this has the appearance of rimrock.
1884
Work is at present being advanced on the rim rock and the dirt pans out from $1.50 to half an ounce in the crevices.
1958
Proof of the depth and force of this meltwater torrent can be studied today in the whirlpool potholes on the rimrock of the river's 80-foot limestome shoreline. . . .
1964
Each claim by law extended five hundred feet down the valley, and extended from rim-rock to rim-rock.
2n.

See 1963 quote.

Quotations

1912
"By dusk I'll be on top of the cliffs, and make my fires back from the rimrock, where them robbers won't see the glare."
1963
By pushing the cattle up over the rimrock--as they call the crest of the hills--to scatter out for the summer, the ranchers are able to conserve the bunch-grass hillsides nearer home for their winter range.
1966
. . . mountain goat were . . . moving in single file along some trail below the rimrock. . . .