rockstone

See also: Rockstone

English

Etymology

rock +‎ stone

Noun

rockstone (plural rockstones)

1. (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.