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English
Alternative forms
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.