rock-in-spring

Updated: May 16, 2025

Now brash, the adjective, exists in both senses in two or three of the most widely separated dialects of the United States, and hence must have come from England. The Spring-in-rock, or, as it was sometimes, by a curious perversion, called, the "rock-in-spring," was a spring running out of a cave-like fissure in a high limestone cliff.

Edward Eggleston - The Hoosier Schoolmaster: A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana