Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which breaks stones; specifically, a machine for pounding or crushing stone; an oremill; a stone-crusher.
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Examples
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Its next acquaintance was an old stone-breaker, a very decent sort.
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Maybe I should have been a stone-breaker or a bricklayer after all, he thought, wondering what Lycaelon would say if he'd seen his son sweating like a common mortal.
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She's a weaver in the gasworks, a stone-breaker to her trade
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The woods closed in on him again, he left the stone-breaker behind, and his face soon assumed its usual self-satisfied expression.
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There he heard that Death had indeed been a visitor in one house during the night, but instead of appearing in his own grand mansion, he had entered the poorest cottage in the place -- the old stone-breaker had died during the night.
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But there was a poor stone-breaker alive yesterday, who in possessing God possessed all things.
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A No. 4 Dodge stone-breaker working about 8 hours will keep a five-foot
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In my country of Alsace, on the solitary route whose interminable ribbon stretches on and on under the forests of the Vosges, there is a stone-breaker whom I have seen at his work for thirty years.
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Blake's stone-breaker, though only represented by model in the United
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Once he stayed to talk with a stone-breaker by the side of the wood; once he led a farmer's restive horse and trap by a traction engine.
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