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rockfall

rockfall noun: a quantity of rocks that has fallen from a cliff etc.

Noun

rockfall (plural rockfalls)

  1. A quantity of rocks that has fallen from a cliff etc.
    • A 200-ton rockfall recently blocked the Machynlleth sidings, trapping several locomotives; a rock-slip on the approach embankment to Talerddig required expensive revetting last year; and on the coastal section to Barmouth an 80 foot-high stone revetment was completed some time ago at Friog; [...].1964 December, Mark Bourne, “The rejuvenation of the Cambrian line”, in Modern Railways, page 390
    • Design work is now complete on the Parsons Tunnel North programme, which envisages a 209-metre rockfall shelter built from a jack-up barge as there is no road access.2020 July 15, Andrew Roden, “Network News: COVID-19 delays Dawlish resilience completion”, in Rail, pages 24–25
    Synonyms:
    rockslide

Proper noun capitalized: Rockfall

Rockfall

  1. A village in the town of Middlefield, Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States.

rockfall meaning in Tamil

rockfall in Tamil

பாறை வீழ்வு

Synonyms of rockfall

Forms of rockfall

pluralrockfalls
alternative formrock fall

Origin of rockfall

From rock + fall.

Questions about rockfall

What does rockfall mean?
Rockfall means a quantity of rocks that has fallen from a cliff etc.
What is rockfall in Tamil?
Rockfall in Tamil is பாறை வீழ்வு. See Rockfall meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is rockfall?
Rockfall can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of rockfall?
The plural of rockfall is rockfalls.

Words near rockfall in the dictionary

  1. Rockett
  2. Rockey
  3. Rockeys
  4. rockface
  5. rockfaces
  6. rockfall
  7. rockfalls
  8. rockfest
  9. rockfests
  10. rockfill
  11. rockfills

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rockfall (page history and authors); Rockfall (page history and authors); rockfall (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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