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ˈrock-work
[f. rock n.1]
1. A natural mass or group of rocks or stones.
1706Phil. Trans. XXV. 1954 These are pretty Shells, and frequently found in Rock-work. 1713Steele Guard. No. 101 The garden..is fenced on the lower end by a natural mound of rock-work. 1781Cowper Charity 96 This genial intercourse..softens human rock-work into men. 1841Penny Cycl. XX. 53/2 Hints should be taken from the natural rock-work that often meets us by the mountain side. 1890Cent. Mag. Aug. 490/2 We come within a few miles to the Vernal and Nevada falls..set in the midst of most novel and sublime rock-work.
transf.1761Chron. in Ann. Reg. 233/2 Their majesties' desert, in which the confectioner had lavished all his ingenuity in rock work and emblematical figures.
2. Stones piled together with soil interspersed for growing Alpine and other plants in a garden; a rockery; also, grotto-work, rough stone-work resembling or imitating natural rocks.
1790W. Wrighte Grotesque Archit. 9 A cascade..decorated with rock-work. 1833Loudon Encycl. Archit. §1979 Rockwork is one of the most common ornaments of gardens. 1845Florist 225 Maritime plants can be planted appropriately at intervals round the pond at the base of the rock⁓work. 1880J. Fothergill Probation ii. xii, A bench situated in a kind of rockery..; the seat was a little retired in a hollow of the rockwork.
attrib.1824Loudon Encycl. Gard. (ed. 2) Gloss. s.v. Mitella, N[orth] Amer[ican] rockwork plants, which prefer light rich soil. 1882Garden 1 Apr. 211/2, I wish to warn all rockwork planters against this evening Primrose.
3. Arch. Masonry very rudely or roughly faced.
1842Gwilt Archit. §2670 Rustics and rockwork on columns are rarely justifiable except for the purpose of some particular picturesque effect.
4. Skill in climbing rocks; ‘rock-craft’.
1898Westm. Gaz. 30 Mar. 3/2 Though the climbs are short they afford excellent practice for learning rock work of the most difficult kind.
Hence ˈrock-worked a., very rudely faced.
1859Gwilt Archit. §2666 Many [basement stories] are capriciously rock-worked on their surface. Ibid. §2669 We now return to the subject of the rock-worked rustic. |