Definition of Stone breaker

1. Noun. Someone who breaks up stone.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Stone Breaker

stone-cold
stone-curlew
stone-dead
stone-deaf
stone-face
stone-faced
stone-fruit
stone-gray
stone-mulching
stone-root
stone-sober
stone-wash
stone bramble
stone brambles
stone breaker (current term)
stone cold
stone cold sober
stone colic
stone crab
stone cress
stone curlew
stone curlews
stone dead
stone deaf
stone drill
stone facing
stone fly
stone fox
stone frigate

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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