Noun : to be trapped under a rockfall. From Dictionary.com.
He was not underground when the rockfall occurred. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Seven people were slightly injured in the rockfall. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Seven miners died in a rockfall at Cooke One shaft at. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Two men were killed and two others injured in a rockfall at. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Of the 17 miners unaccounted for after the rockfall at about. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Three miners were killed in a rockfall 2900m below surface at. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
A miner was killed and another is missing after a rockfall on. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Anything that doesn't look like rockfall, icefall or snowfall. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2006] Reference
"I'm here!" came Ron's muffled voice from behind the rockfall. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]
Two miners were killed and three injured in a rockfall at Vaal. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Gonsalves said it was still not known what caused the rockfall. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The rockfall at 110 level about 3300m below the surface followed. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
They had been respectively crushed by a rockfall at Westenaria's. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Gonsalves said it was not yet known what had caused the rockfall. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The third clept vanished into the narrow tunnel through the rockfall. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer's Luck]
Reefs 'No 2 Shaft near Orkney, also after a tremor caused a rockfall. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Chapman's Peak Drive was closed after a fatal rockfall late last year. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The rockfall was caused by a tremor measuring 2,9 on the Richter scale. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Four miners died at the nearby Kloof mine after a rockfall last Friday. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The second rockfall Mamphodo dreaded did occur, but he was again spared. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The rockfall was caused by a buildup of pressure in an area of the mine. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Ten miners searching for him died in a second rockfall later in the day. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The miners were trapped in a steel cage following a rockfall on April 25. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 8, 2006] Reference
Iscor said a coal cutting machine operator was trapped in a rockfall on Monday. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Kirtn bunched his shoulders, using his hands as clubs to batter out of the rockfall. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer's Luck]
A month later, Loran lay dying, her right side smashed and twisted by the rockfall. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers' War]
Mamphodo was trapped in coal cutting machine equipment after a rockfall on Monday afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The rockfall reeked of weight and danger, and bones of dead Seurs gleamed whitely at its base. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer's Luck]
She scrambled after them through the narrow opening in the rockfall that the J/taals had made. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer's Luck]
Spokesman Jullian Gwillam told Sapa an earth tremor caused a rockfall, which killed the miners. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
I hurried along the river, only to be brought up short by a rockfall barrier higher than my head. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
Then she retreated, not wanting to be near while Fssa probed the altered dynamics of the rockfall. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer's Luck]
African Rainbow Mineral mine in Orkney where fifteen miners were trapped underground in a rockfall. From Wordnik.com. [STATEMENT ON TRAPPED MINERS] Reference
Sharpe scrambled up the rockfall, using his rifle as a staff, and behind him, in ones and twos, the Riflemen followed. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Rifles]
As I hurried down the terraces, squelched across the mudflat, and cautiously attacked the rockfall, my mind was churning at light-speed. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
He braced part of himself on the tunnel floor and probed the rockfall with a burst of energy that made Rheba stagger and grab her temples. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer's Luck]
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