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(rŏk′ēz)

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Rockies

(ˈrɒkɪz)

pl n

(Placename) another name for the Rocky Mountains

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Rock′y Moun′tains

n.pl.

a mountain system in W North America, extending NW from central New Mexico through W Canada to N Alaska. Highest peak in U.S., Mount Elbert, 14,43l ft. (4399 m); highest peak in Canada, Mount Robson, 12,972 ft. (3954 m). Also called Rockies.

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Noun

Rockies - the chief mountain range of western North America; extends from British Columbia to northern New Mexico; forms the continental divide

Rocky Mountains

Mount Elbert - the highest peak in the Rocky Mountains in central Colorado (14,431 feet high)

North America - a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama

Pike's Peak - a mountain peak in the Rockies in central Colorado (14,109 feet high)

San Juan Mountains - a mountain range in southwestern Colorado that is part of the Rocky Mountains

Selkirk Mountains - a range of the Rocky Mountains in southeastern British Columbia

Wheeler Peak - a mountain peak in northeastern New Mexico in the Rocky Mountains

Translations

Rockies

[ˈrɒkiz] npl (= mountains) the Rockies → les Rocheuses fplrocking chair n → rocking-chair mrocking horse n → cheval m à bascule

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Rockies

pl the Rockies → die Rocky Mountains pl

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"It was after I had made my locations on Goldstead--and didn't know what a treasure-pot that that trip creek was going to prove--that I made that trip east over the Rockies, angling across to the Great Up North there the Rockies are something more than a back-bone.

I was supposed to be in sub-arctic America, and high up among the buttresses of the Rockies, and yet there was that everlasting spread of flowers.

She promised to fit me out with dogs and sleds and with Indians that would put me across the best pass of the Rockies in five hundred miles.

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When White Fang was nearly five years old, Grey Beaver took him on another great journey, and long remembered was the havoc he worked amongst the dogs of the many villages along the Mackenzie, across the Rockies, and down the Porcupine to the Yukon.

Grey Beaver had crossed the great watershed between Mackenzie and the Yukon in the late winter, and spent the spring in hunting among the western outlying spurs of the Rockies. Then, after the break-up of the ice on the Porcupine, he had built a canoe and paddled down that stream to where it effected its junction with the Yukon just under the Artic circle.

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On those bitter, starlit nights, as we sat around the old stove that fed us and warmed us and kept us cheerful, we could hear the coyotes howling down by the corrals, and their hungry, wintry cry used to remind the boys of wonderful animal stories; about grey wolves and bears in the Rockies, wildcats and panthers in the Virginia mountains.

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Antonio, how long have you been out here in the Plains and the Rockies?"

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"He is a fine sportsman, and he saved my life in the Rockies, which makes me feel a bit uncomfortable sometimes.

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Men like Al Mayo and Jack McQuestion antedated him; but they had entered the land by crossing the Rockies from the Hudson Bay country to the east.

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He wasn't afraid (though putting himself the question as he believed gentlemen on Bengal tiger-shoots or in close quarters with the great bear of the Rockies had been known to confess to having put it); and this indeed - since here at least he might be frank!

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"Frank here and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa was working a claim.

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Betwixt these rockie Pillars GABRIEL sat Chief of th' Angelic Guards, awaiting night; About him exercis'd Heroic Games Th' unarmed Youth of Heav'n, but nigh at hand Celestial Armourie, Shields, Helmes, and Speares Hung high with Diamond flaming, and with Gold.