Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Scotland, a heavy stone to be thrown with the hand, raised and thrust forward from the shoulder: chiefly used in gymnastic exercises or athletic sports.
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Examples
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When I was sixteen I could carry a bag of wheat or a cask of beer against any man in the village, and I could throw the fifteen-pound putting-stone to a distance of thirty-six feet, which was four feet further than could Ted Dawson, the blacksmith.
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Cunningham tells us, "but a putting-stone with which he loved to exercise his strength, and 300_l. _ of his money, sunk beyond redemption in a speculation from which all had augured happiness."
Robert Burns John Campbell Shairp 1852
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