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  • noun A machine for crushing or hammering stone.

Etymologies

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stone +‎ breaker

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Examples

  • The herb is commonly known as stonebreaker because of its strong roots that are capable to cure biliary diseases.

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

  • Chanca Piedra is known as the "stonebreaker" herb throughout South

    Signs of the Times 2010

  • The road dips here slightly, and at the end of the incline a motor-car was drawn to the side of the road, or rather the remains of what had once been a smart Daimler of some 7 or 8 h.p. A stonebreaker was at work on an adjacent pile of flints, and when

    The Motor Pirate G. Sidney Paternoster

  • Day after day there was an old Irish labourer, a stonebreaker, by the wayside, kneeling on a sack beside a great heap of stones, who gave her a cheery good-morrow as she passed.

    The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand

  • "I could break stones well," holding out a big arm, "but fourteen shillings a week will do no more than buy bread and bacon for a stonebreaker."

    The Shuttle 1907

  • "A fine day, indeed, glory be to God!" the stonebreaker made answer.

    Waysiders Seumas O'Kelly 1899

  • Two different men (one of them an old one-legged stonebreaker at the roadside) were caught with field telephones hidden on them with wire coiled round their bodies.

    My Adventures as a Spy Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell of Gilwell 1899

  • "A strange, down-hearted kind of a man," the stonebreaker said to himself, as he reached out for a lump of lime-stone and raised his hammer.

    Waysiders Seumas O'Kelly 1899

  • He should, he knew, speak with some sense of colloquialism if he was to get on with this stonebreaker, a person for whom he had a certain removed sympathy.

    Waysiders Seumas O'Kelly 1899

  • "I could break stones well," holding out a big arm, "but fourteen shillings a week will do no more than buy bread and bacon for a stonebreaker."

    The Shuttle Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

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