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Definition of Stone breaker
1. Noun. Someone who breaks up stone.
Generic synonyms: Breaker, Ledgeman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stone Breaker
Literary usage of Stone breaker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of the Yale Pageant, 21 October 1916: In Commemoration of the Two by George Henry Nettleton, Yale university (1916)
"THE stone breaker (En WHITNEY BLAKE, Class of 1816) By HENRY T. BLAKE "The Blake
... "My stone breaker," he says, "is a machine so simple and one the whole ..."
2. The Past in the Present: What is Civilization? by Arthur Mitchell (1881)
"In driving from Uig to the village of Barvas, on the west coast, we passed a
stone-breaker sitting at the roadside eating his dinner out of a vessel which ..."
3. An Elementary Text-book of Metallurgy by Alexander Humboldt Sexton (1899)
"Stone-Breaker.—For coarse crushing a stone-breaker is generally used ; this
consists of a heavy jaw which is moved backwards and forwards by a strong arm, ..."
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