Hardpan

Word HARDPAN
Character 7
Hyphenation hard pan
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Hardpan"

What do we mean by hardpan?

A layer of hard subsoil or clay. noun

Hard, unbroken ground. noun

A foundation; bedrock. noun

The more or less firmly consolidated detrital material which sometimes underlies a superficial covering of soil. noun

Hence Hard, unbroken ground. noun

The lowest level; lowest foundation; a firm footing for effort or upward progress: as, prices have reached hard-pan. noun

The hard substratum. Same as Hard pan, under hard, a. noun

A distinct layer of soil that is largely impervious to water. noun

A dry lake. noun

Crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions noun

A former lake, especially a lake that has dried and habitually remains dry, opposed to playas.

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The word "hardpan" in example sentences

Caliche is also known as hardpan, calcrete, kankar (in India), or duricrust. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Some of the farmers down here tell me confidentially that "hardpan" has been found on their neighbors 'farms, but I have not talked with any one who has any on his own farm. ❋ Unknown (1892)

Among other impediments to water reaching the roots, such as hardpan, soil compaction, soil layering, and low salt, is a condition known as water recession. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Caliche is also known as hardpan, calcrete, kankar (in ❋ Unknown (2010)

Away across the desert's hardpan horizon the waves of heat rippled, taunting me with a mirage of hope. ❋ Dirk Eshleman (2010)

It ended at a strip of Texas lawn—lace-work of crab grass on hardpan—inside the fence. ❋ David Ackley (2011)

Bill was quiet as they drove eastward through hardpan countryside dotted with mesquite and old tires and scrap metal that sparkled like mica under the moon. ❋ James Lee Burke (2009)

Subsoils contain a layer enriched with lime and/or gypsum, which may develop into a caliche hardpan. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She thought she heard a train in the distance, the massive weight and power of the locomotive grinding dully on the track, the vibrations spreading through the hardpan like the steady tremors given off by an abscessed wisdom tooth. ❋ James Lee Burke (2009)

The film's settings and characters are standards, familiar representations of the Old West, etched into the hard stone of the landscape: the wide expanses of dusty hardpan, the flat-top mesas and rocky abutments jutting up out of the ground. ❋ Ed Howard (2009)

He stepped out on the hardpan just as the sun broke over the hill, splintering like gold needles, the bottom of the hill still deep in shadow. ❋ James Lee Burke (2009)

In the distance, when a vehicle approached from the west, he could dimly see the abandoned drive-in theater and the weed-grown miniature-golf course and the silhouettes of the Cadillac car bodies buried nose-down in the hardpan. ❋ James Lee Burke (2009)

PETE WALKED DOWN the road in the dark, under the pink stucco arch painted with roses, past the closed-down drive-in theater and the circular building with service windows constructed to resemble a bulging cheeseburger and the three Cadillacs that appeared to be buried nose-first in the hardpan. ❋ James Lee Burke (2009)

The predominant natural plant communities are Needlegrass grasslands, and Northern hardpan vernal pools are common. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For the next half hour, until the light had gone from the sky, he continued to rake and dig in the field that had obviously been scraped down to the hardpan by a dozer blade, then backfilled with the overburden and tamped down and graded as smoothly as if in preparation for construction of a home. ❋ James Lee Burke (2009)

In the distance, he saw a trio of buzzards circling high above the hardpan, their outstretched wings stenciled against a yellow sun that reminded him of light trapped behind a dirty window shade. ❋ James Lee Burke (2009)

Preacher watched the coyote dip a gopher out of the hole and run heavily and stiff-necked across the hardpan, the gopher flopping from its jaws. ❋ James Lee Burke (2009)

But his one-handed aim was sloppy, and the bullets hit the trash pile and stitched the water drum and cut a line across the hardpan, flicking dirt into the air and ricocheting off rocks and whining into the distance with the diminished sound of a broken bedspring. ❋ James Lee Burke (2009)

He watched a half-dozen buzzards turning in the sky, the feathers in their extended wings fluttering on the warm current of air rising from the hardpan. ❋ James Lee Burke (2009)

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