stonebreaker

English

Alternative forms
  • stone breaker
  • stone-breaker

Etymology

stone +‎ breaker

Noun

stonebreaker (plural stonebreakers)

  1. A labourer who breaks stone.
    • 2021, “The Stonebreakers”, in Mubi‎, 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.
  2. A machine for crushing or hammering stone.

References
  • 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary
  • 'stonebreaker' apparently mistranscribed under stonebrearer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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