bowlder

plural bowlders

1. archaicArchaic spelling of boulder.

   Between was the wild valley where cattle grazed among the trees and the massive bowlders.

   1900, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, The Doomswoman

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   Here lay a desolate valley—a shallow, narrow valley dotted with stunted trees and covered with many great bowlders.

   1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 160

   His back humped; like a bowlder hurled down a mountain slope he made his rush, and nothing could swerve him.

   1913, B. M. Bower, The Gringos

   The trees on the summit bent in the wind; spray leaped about the bowlders where the white foam rolled.

   1920, Harold Bindloss, Lister's Great Adventure

   The first step in the construction was to outline the periphery of the base with bowlders of uniform size and weighing, perhaps, fifty pounds each.

   1924, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 6, in Tarzan and the Ant Men, 1st edition