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rimrock ((n.)) Esp. West

• 1 n. an outcropping or ridge of rock, especially one that once formed the bank of a stream.

  See also: rim  

  • 1860  There is every reason to believe that it is equal to the hill-diggings in California, because this has the appearance of rimrock.
  • 1884  Work is at present being advanced on the rim rock and the dirt pans out from $1.50 to half an ounce in the crevices.
  • 1958  Proof of the depth and force of this meltwater torrent can be studied today in the whirlpool potholes on the rimrock of the river's 80-foot limestome shoreline. . . .
  • 1964  Each claim by law extended five hundred feet down the valley, and extended from rim-rock to rim-rock.

• 2 n. See 1963 quote.

  • 1912  "By dusk I'll be on top of the cliffs, and make my fires back from the rimrock, where them robbers won't see the glare."
  • 1963  By pushing the cattle up over the rimrock--as they call the crest of the hills--to scatter out for the summer, the ranchers are able to conserve the bunch-grass hillsides nearer home for their winter range.
  • 1966  . . . mountain goat were . . . moving in single file along some trail below the rimrock. . . .