rockstone
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See also: Rockstone
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]rockstone (plural rockstones)
- (Jamaica) A pebble.
- 1847, Philip Henry Gosse, Richard Hill, The Birds of Jamaica, page 274:
- Without wasting many words, however, the youth picked up a "rockstone," as pebbles are called in Jamaica, and delivered the missile with so skilful an aim, that the bird dropped to the ground, […]
- 1992, Lorna Goodison, “Praise to the mother of Jamaican art”, in Poems:
- She learned her art by breaking / hard rockstones.