"kerb-stone" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: kerb-stones [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} kerb-stone (plural kerb-stones)
  1. Alternative form of kerbstone Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: kerbstone
    Sense id: en-kerb-stone-en-noun-ZO1tWIoK Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1963, Audrey Shore Henshall, The Chambered Tombs of Scotland - Volume 2, page 46:",
          "text": "Across the entrance to the chamber there may be either a kerb–stone or a sillstone. A kerb–stone (a stone set on edge) is placed immediately behind the portal stones between the ends of the first two orthostats of the chamber.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Rick Allen, The Moving Pageant:",
          "text": "Along the kerb-stone, itinerant vendors of prints, and stain-cleaning pastes, and mosaic gold chains, and studs, display their merchandise; and round the corner, near the tavern door, the Italian boy grinds his pianoorgan in dumb show.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "2013, F.S. Williams, Our Iron Roads: Their History, Construction and Administraton, page 252:",
          "text": "He snatches away the piece of sacking that is supposed to retain the caloric in the loins of his horse, goes through a series of evolutions in order to bring his cab alongside the kerb-stone, a process which could not be adequately described without the aid of diagrams, and which the uninitiated might consider was for the purpose of driving the horse in at the open door of the vehicle, instead of putting the passenger there.",
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          "text": "Along the kerb-stone, itinerant vendors of prints, and stain-cleaning pastes, and mosaic gold chains, and studs, display their merchandise; and round the corner, near the tavern door, the Italian boy grinds his pianoorgan in dumb show.",
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          "ref": "2013, F.S. Williams, Our Iron Roads: Their History, Construction and Administraton, page 252:",
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