drip-rock

Dialect

Meaning: An Ozarks cave formation made by dripping mineral water.
Type: Dialect Word
Used in: Jasper, Arkansas
Source: Springfield-Greene County Library

What does “drip-rock” mean

Drip-rock is Ozarks cave vocabulary: the stalactite or stalagmite built slowly by mineral-heavy water. It sounds plain because it is plain-spoken geology from cave country.

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