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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1896

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BOWDER, n.2 "A boulder " (Kcb.9 1935). The form is found also in Eng. dial. (see N.E.D.). [′bʌudər]Kcb. 1896 S. R. Crockett Grey Man xxxvi.:
The many bowders and rocky humps about gave the enemy great shelter.

[Bowder might come from an unrecorded Sc. form bolder (see P.L.D. §55). This word occurs in Eng. dial. with double meaning of "a stone" and "a resonant noise" (see E.D.D.). Mod.Du. has bolderen, to bluster, and Sw. dial. has buller-sten, a large stone in a stream, from Sw. bullra, to roar, cogn. with O.E. bellan, pa.p. bolen, idem, see Buller, n. and v.]

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