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bulder

bulder is the obsolete spelling of boulder.

Meaning of boulder

Noun

boulder (plural boulders)

  1. A large mass of stone detached from the surrounding land.
  2. A particle greater than 256 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
  3. A large marble, in children's games.
    • There were four sizes of marbles and we called them boulders, biggies, regulars, and teenies.2006, Carol Benson, The Old Lonesome, page 84
  4. A session of bouldering; involvement in bouldering.

See all 12 meanings of boulder

Forms of bulder

pluralbulders

Questions about bulder

What is bulder the obsolete spelling of?
Bulder is the obsolete spelling of boulder.

Words near bulder in the dictionary

  1. Bulcamp
  2. bulchin
  3. bulchins
  4. Buldah
  5. buldak
  6. bulder
  7. buldering
  8. bulders
  9. Buldhana
  10. bulemia
  11. bulemic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bulder (page history and authors); boulder (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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