rockstone en · NOUN
Etymology
From rock + stone.
Meanings
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(Jamaica) A pebble.
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, […]
1847, Philip Henry Gosse, Richard Hill, The Birds of Jamaica, page 274:She learned her art by breaking / hard rockstones.
1992, Lorna Goodison, “Praise to the mother of Jamaican art”, in Poems:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| rockstones | Number=Plur | lexicographic |