Definition of Incaving

1. incave [v] - See also: incave

Lexicographical Neighbors of Incaving

incastelled
incatenation
incaution
incautions
incautious
incautiously
incautiousness
incavated
incavation
incavations
incave
incaved
incaverned
incaves
incavi
incaving (current term)
incavity
incavo
ince
incede
inceded
incedes
inceding
incedingly
incelebrity
incend
incended
incendiaries
incendiarism
incendiarisms

Literary usage of Incaving

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Earth Features and Their Meaning: An Introduction to Geology for the Student by William Herbert Hobbs (1912)
"An incaving of this nature may close up-an earlier gallery in the cavern and ... The destruction of the roofs of caverns through this process of incaving ..."

2. Earthquakes: An Introduction to Seismic Geology by William Herbert Hobbs (1907)
"He Anaxagoras. apparently accepted as a possible cause the view of Anaximenes that earthquakes may arise from incaving of the earth. ..."

3. A Textbook of Geology by Amadeus William Grabau (1920)
"Other irregular hollows are formed by the breaking or incaving of the roof of the cavern. The Natural Bridge of Virginia (Fig. 355) is the last remnant of a ..."

4. A Comprehensive Geology by Amadeus William Grabau (1920)
"Other irregular hollows are formed by the breaking or incaving of the roof of the cavern. The Natural Bridge of Virginia (Fig. 355) is the last remnant of a ..."

5. Publication by Michigan, Michigan Geological Survey, Geological and Biological Survey (1911)
"On May 26, 1906, some very remarkable phenomena were observed at the Atlantic mine, these consisting in deformations of railway tracks and incaving at the ..."

6. The Late Glacial and Post Glacial Uplift of the Michigan Basin: Earthquakes by William Herbert Hobbs (1911)
"On the date of the incaving at the Atlantic mine, the pencil fell in a direction E. 30° S., which fact was observed and recorded before the news of the ..."

7. Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction: Submitting Outline Plan by Virginia Dept. of Public Instruction (1867)
"The work on this sewerage was commenced as early as the season would admit; but was not only delayed, but greatly increased by the incaving of earth, ..."

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