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ˈrock-bed
[rock n.1]
A floor or base of rock; a rocky bottom or under-stratum; often fig. (Cf. bed-rock, s.v. bed n. 18.)
1839–52Bailey Festus 305 Ocean's depths He clove unto their rock-bed. 1849Robertson Serm. Ser. i. ii. (1866) 27 Frivolity has turned the heart into a rockbed of selfishness. 1862A. C. Ramsay Rock Spec. (ed. 3) 126 In some localities in Oxfordshire..the ‘Rock bed’ of the Marlstone becomes highly ferruginous. 1883E. P. Ramsay Food-Fishes N.S.W. 42 A hard rock-bed with large loose stones.
attrib.1883Home Missionary Sept. 201 The religious conceptions which are the rockbed ideas of Christianity. |