| 单词 | rockberg |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrockberg rockberg n. [ < rock n.1 + -berg (in iceberg n.)] a mass of rock resembling an iceberg. ΚΠ 1828 Hist. Bullanabee & Clinkataboo 4 He got on board his boat, and under the pretence of surveying a sunken rock beyond the entrance of the harbour, threaded the needles and the rockbergs, and launched out to sea in pursuit of a ship. 1865 E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 242 The tors looked like rockbergs, once floating on the great revolving drift. 1999 S. Baxter in Year's Best Sci. Fiction Sixteenth Ann. Coll. 371 There had been some intrusion from below since then—magnesium-suite rockbergs pushing up into the crust—but the mantle,..had become essentially static. < as lemmas |
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