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bedrock the solid unweathered rock that lies beneath the loose surface deposits of soil, alluvium, etc bedrock [′bed‚räk] (geology) General term applied to the solid rock underlying soil or any other unconsolidated surficial cover.
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| And, moreover, when you come right down to the bedrock, knight-errantry is WORSE than pork; for whatever happens, the pork's left, and so somebody's benefited anyway; but when the market breaks, in a knight-errantry whirl, and every knight in the pool passes in his checks, what have you got for assets? All superficial accumulations were swept away, and the bedrock was exposed. It emptied in a riffle, across exposed bedrock, into another pool. |
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