rocky

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ROCK'Y, adjective [from rock.] 1. Full of rocks; as a rocky mountain; rocky shore. 2. Resembling a rock; as the rocky orb of a shield. 3. Very hard; stony; obdurate; insusceptible of impression; as a rocky bosom.
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