Definitions for boulders
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1. Boulders

   In geology, a boulder (or rarely bowlder) is a rock fragment with size greater than 25.6 centimetres (10.1 in) in diameter. Smaller pieces are called cobbles and pebbles. While a boulder may be small enough to move or roll manually, others are extremely massive. In common usage, a boulder is too large for a person to move. Smaller boulders are usually just called rocks or stones. The word boulder derives from boulder stone, from the Middle English bulderston or Swedish bullersten.In places covered by ice sheets during ice ages, such as Scandinavia, northern North America, and Siberia, glacial erratics are common. Erratics are boulders picked up by ice sheets during their advance, and deposited when they melt. These boulders are called "erratic" because they typically are of a different rock type than the bedrock on which they are deposited. One such boulder is used as the pedestal of the Bronze Horseman in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Some noted rock formations involve giant boulders exposed by erosion, such as the Devil's Marbles in Australia's Northern Territory, the Horeke basalts in New Zealand, where an entire valley contains only boulders, and The Baths on the island of Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands. Boulder-sized clasts are found in some sedimentary rocks, such as coarse conglomerate and boulder clay. The climbing of large boulders is called bouldering.

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1. Boulders

   Boulders is the first solo album by Roy Wood. Apart from harmonium on track 1 played by John Kurlander, all the instruments and voices were by Wood, who also wrote, arranged, and produced the whole album, and did a self-portrait for the front cover. It peaked at No. 15 in the UK album chart. Most of the album was recorded while Wood was still in The Move, although it was not released until he had left the Electric Light Orchestra and was fronting Wizzard. Two singles were taken from the album, ‘When Gran’ma Plays the Banjo’/’Wake Up’, and ‘Dear Elaine’/’Songs of Praise’. The latter reached No. 18 in the UK charts. "Rock Down Low" and "The Locomotive" were sometimes featured by Wizzard in their live performances. "Songs of Praise" was recorded by the New Seekers and reached the last six for the British entry to the 1972 Eurovision Song Contest. Roy Wood had previously attempted recording "She's Too Good For Me" in 1968 with Move bandmate Trevor Burton before re-recording the song entirely himself for "Boulders". These early attempts were released on "The Move Anthology". ‘Boulders’ was reissued on CD by EMI/Harvest on August 27, 2007.

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1. boulders

   Stones worn and rounded by the attrition of the waves of the sea: the word, on the authority of Hunter, was considered a technical term in the fourteenth century, as appears in a warrant of John of Gaunt for the repair of Pontefract Castle--"De peres, appelés buldres, a n're dit chastel come nous semblerez resonables pur la defense de meisme."

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1. doublers

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of boulders in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of boulders in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of boulders in a Sentence

1. Ganesh Thami:

   The river beating the stones made drumming sounds that kept growing. I heard the sound of the boulders rolling with the water. It felt like an earthquake.

2. Vic Santucci:

   Gobies are found in abundance among the rocks and boulders of our harbors and nearshore areas throughout much of the year. Foraging whitefish may be drawn to these nearshore areas when the temperature is right to feed on gobies or other prey, which increases their chances of encountering baited hooks of anglers fishing nearshore for perch, drum or other species.

3. A.E. Samaan:

   The Earth is nothing but phlegm spat out by the Sun, and our immediate solar system a whirlwind of boulders. There is no delicate balance.

4. Vinoj Kumar:

   In the past two days the intensity of the rain was high and the water started coming down carrying boulders and roots which damaged the wall, the dam wall cracked and the water escaped.

5. Bill Gray:

   If it were observable -- which, sadly, it won't be -- you would see a big flash, and dust and disintegrated rocket bits and pebbles and boulders thrown out, some of it for hundreds of kilometers.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulders
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=boulders
3. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=boulders