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Rock-ribbed   /rɑk-rɪbd/   Listen
Rock-ribbed

adjective
1.
Abounding in or bordered by rocky cliffs or scarps.  Synonym: rockbound.
2.
Tradition-bound and obstinately opinionated.  Synonym: die-hard.  "Rock-ribbed republican"






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"Rock-ribbed" Quotes from Famous Books



... watched unseen, rose and stood on the crumbling wall. A roughly caressing northwest wind blew back her skirts. She threw out her wide-sleeved arms in exultant pleasure at the magnificence of the vast river, with its forest boundaries, and the rock-ribbed heights of Crow's Nest. As she stood looking "taller than human," she reminded him of the figure of victory he had seen as a boy on the stairway of the Louvre. He stood still—again refreshed. The figure he then ...
— Westways • S. Weir Mitchell

... we had heard was unquestionably Yolanda's, but by what strange power it was enabled to penetrate our rock-ribbed prison and give tongues to the cold stones I could not guess, though I could not stop trying. Here was another riddle set by this marvellous girl for my solving. This riddle, however, helped to solve the first, and confirmed my belief that Yolanda ...
— Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy • Charles Major

... at the window one day, staring greedily out at the lumpy rock-ribbed road; silent, perforce, and tapping the arms of her chair with nervous intensity. Suddenly she called out, "Mary! Mary Ames! Come here quick! There's somebody coming up ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman



Words linked to "Rock-ribbed" :   inflexible, die-hard, rough, rockbound, unsmooth



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