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stone-throwing en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The action of throwing one or more stones, often as a form of aggression or assault, or with the intention of causing damage.
   • Porcelain insulators, though generally successful, have proved vulnerable to malicious stone-throwing and particularly in bad weather they have been liable to fracture in flashover where there are many steam locomotive movements; [...]. 1961 December, “Talking of Trains: B.R. experience with 25kV a.c.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 707:

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