rock wall

noun

1. rock fence.

Word History and Origins

Origin of rock wall¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

Still, these majestic trees aren’t the only selling point of a hike that combines the James Irvine Trail and Fern Canyon Loop, where dripping ferns cover 50-foot-tall rock walls—a filming site for the second Jurassic Park movie.

From Outside Online

At the time it was the longest period anyone had ever spent on a rock wall.

From Outside Online

These plastic resin rock wall hand holds are a fun addition to your kids’ indoor or outdoor play space and can also support the weight of a 230-pound adult.

From Outside Online

Beyond the Competition Area, General Sam’s trails traverse pine forests, creek drainages, swamps, rock walls, and epic ruts.

From Outside Online

The only real impact is social—that is, houseboaters and wakeboarders down the lake will be irritated to find litter bobbing against the otherwise pristine rock walls.

From Outside Online

Only a short rock wall separates us from a drop of hundreds of feet.

From The Daily Beast

Fifty-two hours and 54 minutes after leaping from a rock wall in Havana, the 64-year-old marathon swimmer reached Key West.

From The Daily Beast

Then too, I will have to blast a hole in the rock wall to get the pump located, after that, one year is all I want.

From Project Gutenberg

A stray breeze slid down the rock wall and rumpled her bright hair.

From Project Gutenberg

For the coast of Labrador is nearly a thousand miles of barren bleakness and forbidding and foreboding rock wall.

From Project Gutenberg

Copple left our stand and ran up over the ridge, and then down under and along the base of a rock wall.

From Project Gutenberg

They came instead to other steps, narrow and steep, that led upward in a semicircle to a rough hole in a rock wall.

From Project Gutenberg