stonebreaker

English

Alternative forms

stone breaker
stone-breaker

Etymology

stone +‎ breaker

Noun

stonebreaker (plural stonebreakers)

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.
A machine for crushing or hammering stone.

References

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.

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