- a variation of curbstone.
kerbstone
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A day after the article was published, Englishman Simon Andrews was killed after colliding with a kerbstone.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2014
Laborer Rowlands is laying a kerbstone along the edge of the Row.
From Time Magazine Archive
As I left the kerbstone, the door opened and I heard her question:— "Has Father Adrian called or written, or sent any address yet, please?"
From A Monk of Cruta by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
He paid the man, and stood for a while on the kerbstone, looking up and down the street, under the downpour of the rain.
From Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
She sat down on the kerbstone to count her money, putting her feet in the dry gutter a la manière born.
From An Australian Lassie by A.J. (Alfred J.) Johnson
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