Recent Examples on the WebAbout 2 feet of water remained above the crack as of Wednesday evening, and workers had covered nearly 45 feet of the crack with boulders.—CBS News, 11 Apr. 2024 Dusty Booze Imagine an Indiana Jones tale — if the golden idol was a bottle of post-Prohibition bourbon and the role of gigantic, skull-crushing boulder was played by rampaging hipsters on a Pappy Van Winkle hunt.—Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for boulder
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Word History
Etymology
short for boulder stone, from Middle English bulder ston, partial translation of a word of Scandinavian origin; akin to Swedish dialect bullersten large stone in a stream, from buller noise + sten stone
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