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^[1], 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

• 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.