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Definition of Sowbacks
1. sowback [n] - See also: sowback
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sowbacks
Literary usage of Sowbacks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Great Ice Age and Its Relation to the Antiquity of Man by James Geikie (1894)
"It is especially worthy of note, too, that the long parallel ridges, or ' sowbacks'
and ' drums,' as they are termed, which are the characteristic forms ..."
2. The Great Ice Age: And Its Relation to the Antiquity of Man by James Geikie (1874)
"sowbacks" or "drums" of till.—"Crag and tail."—Smoothed and broken rocks below
till.—Configuration, of mountains and hills.—-Lines of stones in till. ..."
3. The Great Ice Age: And Its Relation to the Antiquity of Man by James Geikie (1877)
"u sowbacks " or "drums" of till.—" Crag and tail."—Smoothed and broken rocks
below till.—Configuration of mountains and hills.—Lines of stones in till. ..."
4. Annual Report by Geological Survey of Canada (1906)
"They are long and narrow with rounded tops and gently sloping sides composed
largely of boulders and having the appearance of drumlins or sowbacks. ..."
5. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"In some low-lying tracts, however, it is often arranged in long parallel banks
or 'drums,'and 'sowbacks'—the general trend of which corresponds with that of ..."
6. Earth Sculpture; Or, The Origin of Land-forms: Or, The Origin of Landforms by James Geikie (1898)
"... arranged in a well marked series of long parallel banks known as "drums" or "
sowbacks." Elsewhere, again, as in Galloway and in many parts of Ireland, ..."
7. Earth Sculpture; Or, The Origin of Land-forms by James Geikie (1898)
"... boulder-clay becomes strongly defined, the accumulation being arranged in a
well marked series of long parallel banks known as " drums " or " sowbacks. ..."
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