rocking-stone

We took a small boat full of fish resembling codlings or small cod, called "lieu," and were rowed by the fishermen through a sea of granite boulders to the opposite side of the Trégastel estuary, to see the "pierre pendue," or rocking-stone (Breton, _rouler_), the largest in Brittany.

Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser

The large stone at the top was a logan, or rocking-stone.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 337, October 25, 1828 Various

Before we reached the village of Trégunc we stopped to see a large dolmen on the side of the road, and further to the right a rocking-stone, twelve feet long and nine feet thick, standing about fifteen feet from the ground, the second largest in Brittany.

Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser

I keep wondering how it ever got into that strange position -- a sort of dental rocking-stone, weird, solitary, inexplicable.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 6, 1891 Various

They meant to climb to the rocking-stone on the summit, but it was too far, and they contented themselves with the big group of caves.

A Passage To India Forster, E. M. 1924

According to Pliny, there was in the neighbourhood a rocking-stone which could be set in motion by a finger-touch, whereas the force of the whole body could not move it.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

The table, like the rest of the suite, was of bird's-eye maple; but the maker seemed to have penetrated the druidic secret of the rocking-stone, the thing was in a state of unstable equilibrium perpetually.

The Hill of Dreams Arthur Machen 1905

After luncheon they visited the great "rocking-stone."

Marjorie's Busy Days Carolyn Wells 1902

One night -- he had unbuckled himself after ten hours 'waiting above a "blind" seal-hole, and was staggering back to the village faint and dizzy -- he halted to lean his back against a boulder which happened to be supported like a rocking-stone on a single jutting point of ice.

The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900

Misery me, he sit on dat rocking-stone you see tipping on de wind.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897