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Definition of Rockhound
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rockhound
Literary usage of Rockhound
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adventure Guide to the Pacific Northwest by Don Young, Marjorie Young (1999)
"Prineville calls itself the "rockhound capital of the world" and stages an annual
rockhound Pow Wow each June. The Limb Cast area 55 miles east of town was ..."
2. Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways by Jamie Jensen (2006)
"The best place to camp is southeast of town in rockhound State Park (505/546-6182),
where, besides finding nice sites with hot Silver City, an evocative old ..."
3. The Ohio Educational Monthly by Ohio State Teachers Association (1900)
"So with Nature Study; twenty-five years ago it was not named in any curriculum,
yet there were many little rills issuing from the old rockhound sides of ..."
4. Canada's Atlantic Provinces: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland by Barbara Radcliffe Rogers, Stillman Rogers (2005)
"There are two beaches here, which make a nice beach walk; if you are a rockhound
you can look along the cliff bottoms and perhaps find amethysts, ..."
5. Desert Dancing: Exploring the Land, the People, the Legends of the by Len Wilcox (2000)
"We can rockhound, prospect for gold, hike, and let our spirits soar. Innumerable
trails head off into the distance, with few restrictions. ..."
6. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story edited by Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1922)
"(See 1916. 1918. 1918.) (H.) (113:524.) Mr. Cord. Red Bit. Oct.,'20. (83.)
Price of a Party. Cos. Feb. (76.) rockhound. Cos. Jan. (58.) Wildcatter. Cos. ..."
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