Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stone-breaker or stone-crusher.
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Examples
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Rising from the home valley, passing through cultivated fields and wooded knolls, they took a road busy with many wagons hauling road-dressing from the rock-crusher they could hear growling and crunching higher up.
CHAPTER XXV 2010
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They continued on till the crunch of the rock-crusher died away, penetrated a belt of woodland, crossed
CHAPTER XXV 2010
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In other words, FOR OVER A YEAR, this guy was operating a "D-9 Caterpillar and diesel rock-crusher . . . in a crater next to" the homes of L.A. residents.
Archive 2006-06-01 2006
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In other words, FOR OVER A YEAR, this guy was operating a "D-9 Caterpillar and diesel rock-crusher . . . in a crater next to" the homes of L.A. residents.
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Holguin; glass industry, first part of it already in production; rock-crusher in Somorostro.
26 JULY ANNIVERSARY 1971
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There was a half minute of rock-crusher crunching; then both natives opened their mouths.
Masters of Space Robert Lee [Illustrator] Berry 1925
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Rising from the home valley, passing through cultivated fields and wooded knolls, they took a road busy with many wagons hauling road-dressing from the rock-crusher they could hear growling and crunching higher up.
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They continued on till the crunch of the rock-crusher died away, penetrated a belt of woodland, crossed a tiny divide where the afternoon sunshine was wine-colored by the manzanita and rose-colored by madronos, and dipped down through a young planting of eucalyptus to the Little Meadow.
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Rising from the home valley, passing through cultivated fields and wooded knolls, they took a road busy with many wagons hauling road - dressing from the rock-crusher they could hear growling and crunching higher up.
The Little Lady of the Big House Jack London 1896
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They continued on till the crunch of the rock-crusher died away, penetrated a belt of woodland, crossed a tiny divide where the afternoon sunshine was wine-colored by the manzanita and rose-colored by madronos, and dipped down through a young planting of eucalyptus to the Little Meadow.
The Little Lady of the Big House Jack London 1896
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