stonebreaker
English edit
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
stonebreaker (plural stonebreakers)
- A labourer who breaks stone.
- 2021, “The Stonebreakers”, in Mubi[1], archived from the original on 2023-04-25:
- In 1908, Argentinian stonebreakers went on what was to become the longest strike in the country’s history.
- A machine for crushing or hammering stone.
References edit
- Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Stonebreaker”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
- “'stonebreaker' apparently mistranscribed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.