Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A yard or inclosure in which stone-cutters are employed.
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Examples
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He pointed with his thumb backwards across some railroad tracks and through a stone-yard to a small two-storey office building at the end of three huge sheds.
Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller
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We remember an old stone-yard that used to stand where the Pennsylvania
Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923
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Jude went on to the stone-yard where he had worked.
Jude the Obscure 1896
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Jude went on to the stone-yard where he had worked.
Jude the Obscure 1894
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Then Fandor caught sight of some of his colleagues, stumbling about amidst the ruins and rubble in the stone-yard.
Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas Pierre Souvestre 1894
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Whilst yet it was dark his three elder brothers came down the stairs and let themselves out, each bearing his lantern and going to his work in stone-yard and timber-yard and at the salt-works.
The N�rnberg Stove 1892
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Mr. Cragg have discovered some sort of mineral wealth in his stone-yard, which would account for his paying taxes on the place and visiting it so often?
Mary Louise in the Country J. Allen St. [Illustrator] John 1887
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Old Swallowtail reached the stone-yard and climbed the fence.
Mary Louise in the Country J. Allen St. [Illustrator] John 1887
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His delivery of counterfeit money to Ned Joselyn had been of too recent a date to render it necessary that he revisit his stone-yard for some time to come, she argued; yet to-night, at a little after eleven o'clock, she saw his shadow pass from the house and take the path to the bridge.
Mary Louise in the Country J. Allen St. [Illustrator] John 1887
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An automobile left the edge of the stone-yard, followed a lane and turned into the main highway, where it encountered a woman standing in the middle of the road and waving her arms.
Mary Louise in the Country J. Allen St. [Illustrator] John 1887
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