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Water-worn. World English Historical Dictionary

Water-worn. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Water-worn a. Worn or corroded by the action of water. Chiefly Geol.

1 1772.  Edinburgh Advertiser, 9 Oct., 1/1. They [cairns] are made up of water-worn blue stones.

2 1815.  Bakewell, Introd. Geol., 10. Water-worn fragments of primary and transition rocks are commonly found in many of the secondary rocks.

3 1829.  J. Phillips, Geol. Yorks., 49. Fragments of chalk and flint which … are very little water-worn.

4 1859.  R. F. Burton, Centr. Afr., in Jrnl. Geog. Soc., XXIX. 33. Bare coralline rocks, smooth and waterworn near the sea, rough and sharp inland.

5 1888.  F. Hume, Mme. Midas, I. Prol. There was a smooth water-worn boulder on the beach.

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