Word Finder - cave

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A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.

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We found a cave on the mountainside where we could take shelter.

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A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.

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A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.

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This wine has been aged in our cave for thirty years.

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A place of retreat, such as a man cave.

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My room was a cozy cave where I could escape from my family.

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A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.

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It was not strictly a cave, but a narrow fissure in the rock.

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A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.

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(drilling) Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.

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A collapse or cave-in.

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The vagina.

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(often "Cave") A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.

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Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.

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A code cave.

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To surrender.

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He caved under pressure.

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To collapse.

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First the braces buckled, then the roof began to cave, then we ran.

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To hollow out or undermine.

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The levee has been severely caved by the river current.

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To engage in the recreational exploration of caves.

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I have caved from Yugoslavia to Kentucky.

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• spelunk

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In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.

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The deposit is caved by knocking out the posts.

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To work over tailings to dress small pieces of marketable ore.

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To dwell in a cave.

The cave was dark.

The cave was damp and cool, but she was warm and cozy.

The cave closed behind her, startling her.

The opening to the cave was only a narrow hole between two rocks.

Romas rescued me from the cave before you blew up the mines.

It was cold in the cave.

He led them through the maze until they emerged into a yawning cave lit by lanterns then continued into another set of halls.

On the right bank, near this bridge, is the cave in which Wallace concealed himself after killing Hezelrig and which still bears his name.

The minute he found her missing from the cave, he'd felt an uneasy, unfamiliar sense of concern.

He walked to the edge of the cave and dived out.

I'd rather die than be stuck in a cave.

Cave appears to have been the first 2 The first series of the Gentleman's Magazine or Trader's Monthly Intelligencer, extended from January 1731 to December 1 735, 5 vols.; the Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle from January 1736 to December 1807, vols.

Paleolithic man, who made pictures on cave walls.

With the canteens full, they started for the cave entrance and then stopped.

He lifted her in his arms and she allowed him to carry her deeper into the cave.

She took three steps away from her cave.

She reached out to the cave.

Opposite the entrance, he saw an area that shimmered darker than the rest of the cave.

He lived at Cnossus for periods of nine years, at the end of which he retired into a sacred cave, where he received instruction from Zeus in the legislation which he gave to the island.

A third type of cave passage is found in ancient, fossil remnants, located in the higher beds.

Then he led her into the cave.

He'd cave to Andre's advice and double-check with Darkyn about whether or not his mate owed the Dark One anything – formally or informally.

The dining hall was vacant and massive, a cave converted into a cafeteria.

Jenn drew a knife in case an animal had also taken refuge in the cave.

The wind still whistled at the mouth of the cave.

The snow fell in sheets outside the cave.

The curtain of snow parted finally, and Darian's dark form entered the cave.

Demeter, clad in black (hence µEXaiva) in token of mourning for her daughter and wrath with Poseidon, retired into a cave.

Numerous large caves exist in the mountains; among the most remarkable are the famous Idaean cave in Psiloriti, the caves of Melidoni, in Mylopotamo, and Sarchu, in llalevisi, which sheltered hundreds of refugees after the insurrection of 1866, and the Dictaean cave in Lassithi, the birth-place of Zeus.

Candia, the former capital and the see of the archbishop of Crete (pop. in 1900, 22,501), is officially styled Herakleion; it is surrounded by remarkable Venetian fortifications and possesses a museum with a valuable collection of objects found at Cnossus, Phaestus, the Idaean cave and elsewhere.

Although images of the divinities were certainly known, the principal objects of cult in the Minoan age were of the aniconic class; in many cases these were natural objects, such as rocks and mountain peaks, with their cave sanctuaries, like those of Ida or of Dicte.

His last days were spent in a cave in the parish of Sorn, near his birthplace, and there he died in 1686, worn out by hardship and privation.

From these structural and palaeontological evidences, geologists suppose that the formation of the cave was carried on simultaneously with the excavation of the valley; that the small streams, flowing down the upper ramifications of the valley, entered the western opening of the cave, and traversing the fissures in the limestone, escaped by the lower openings in the chief valley; and that the rounded pebbles found in the shingle bed were carried in by these streams. It would be only at times of drought that the cave was frequented by animals, a theory which explains the small quantity of animal remains in the shingle.

As the excavation of the valley proceeded, the level of the stream was lowered and its course diverted; the cave consequently became drier and was far more frequently inhabited by predatory animals.

Steamboats run from the mouth of the Green river, near Evansville, Indiana, to the Mammoth Cave landing.

Another Reform Bill, memorable for driving certain good Liberals into a Cave of Adullam, broke up the new government in a few months; Disraeli contributing to the result by the delivery of opinions not new to him and of lasting worth, though presently to be subordinated to arguments of an inferior order and much less characteristic. "At this rate," he said in 1866,"you will have a parliament that will entirely lose its command over the executive, and it will meet with less consideration and possess less influence."

An extraordinary perfection was at this time attained in many branches of art, notably in the painted pottery, often with polychrome decoration, of a class known as " Kamares " from its first discovery in a cave of that name on' Mount Ida.

Shrines of the Double Axes have been found in the palace of Cnossus itself, at Hagia Triada, and in a small palace at Gournia, and many specimens of the sacred emblem occurred in the Cave Sanctuary of Dicte, the mythical birthplace of the Cretan Zeus.

Milchhdfer (Anfdnge der Kunst) had called attention to certain remarkable examples of archaic Greek bronze-work, and the subsequent discovery of the votive bronzes in the cave of Zeus on Mount Ida, and notably the shields with their fine embossed designs, shows that by the 8th century B.C. Cretan technique in metal not only held its own beside imported Cypro-Phoenician work, but was distinctly ahead of that of the rest of Greece (Halbherr, Bronzi del antro di Zeus Ideo).

Neolithic remains were found in 1882 in the Grotta delle Felci, a cave on the south coast.

A little farther down the river is St Robert's cave, which is supposed to have been the residence of the hermit, and in 1744 was the scene of the murder of Daniel Clarke by Eugene Aram, whose story is told in Lytton's wellknown novel.

Their founder was Johann Conrad Beissel (1690-1768), a native of Eberbach and one of the first emigrants, who, after living as a hermit for several years on Mill Creek, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, founded the sect (1725), then again lived as a hermit in a cave (formerly occupied by another hermit, one Elimelech) on the Cocalico Creek in Pennsylvania, and in 1732-1735 established a semi-monastic community (the "Order of the Solitary") with a convent (the "Sister House") and a monastery (the "Brother House") at Ephrata, in what is now Lancaster county, about 55 m.

After having spent forty years in a cave at the foot of mount Sinai, he became abbot of the monastery.

The island first attracted the notice of archaeologists by the remarkable archaic Greek bronzes found in a cave on Mount Ida in 1885, as well as by epigraphic monuments such as the famous law of Gortyna; but the first undoubted Aegean remains reported from it were a few objects extracted from Cnossus by Minos Kalokhairinos of Candia in 1878.

On East Rock is a monument to the Connecticut soldiers who fell in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, the Mexican War and the Civil War; on the West Rock is a cave, "Judges' Cave," in which the regicides William Goffe and Edward Whalley are said to have concealed themselves when sought for by royal officers in 1661.

Thousands must have joined the Third Crusade in order to escape paying either their taxes or the interest on their debts; and the atmosphere of the gold-digger's camp (or of the cave of Adullam) must have begun more than ever to characterize the crusading armies.

Another cave more to the west was revealed by the demolition of the bastion of Odysseus.

Farther east is an underground passage leading eastward to a cave supposed to be the sanctuary of Aglaurus where the ephebi took the oath; with this passage is connected a secret staircase leading up through a cleft in the rock to the precinct of the Errephori on the Acropolis.

Another choragic monument was that of Thrasyllus, which faced a cave in the Acropolis rock above the Dionysiac theatre.

Neither does he refer in any way to the famous cave in which, according to the Ignatian myth, the Spiritual Exercises were written.