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rimrock ((v.))
West, Slang
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1v.
drive (cattle) into a corral, enclosure, etc.
Quotations
1955
With the Vanderhoof stockyards only seven days away, I had a strong feeling that if any outfit could rimrock this drive into the cattle cars, this was the one that would do it.
2
hedge in; cut off; entrap.
See: rimrock ((n.))(def. 2)
Quotations
1951
He had spotted a band of at least twenty wild horses . . . rimrocked by a heavy snowfall in a high valley beyond Tatla Lake.