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ˈrockiness
Also 7 rockienes, rockinesse, 9 rockyness.
[f. rocky a.1 + -ness.]
The quality of being rocky; rocky character.
1611Cotgr., Rochaille, rockes; rockinesse. 1640Boston Rec. (1877) II. 55 Brother Robert Scott hath the like 200 acres graunted him there,..without alowance for rockienes or swampe. 1661J. Childrey Brit. Bacon. 3 The rockiness and dryness of the Countrey. 1775Adair Amer. Ind. 228 The Alps of Italy are much inferior to several of the Cheerake Mountains, both in height and rockiness. 1805Saunders Min. Waters 153 The New Town,..from the great inequality of its site, and the rockyness of its soil, is very soon dry after the severest showers. |