- a variation of curbstone.
kerbstone
Britishnoun
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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
The woman sat down on the kerbstone, and declined to move a step in spite of her husband's entreaties that she would try.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
The carriages are all drawn up with their hind wheels to the kerbstone, so that the approach to the theatre is quite clear.
From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 by James H. Mapleson
A very small, pale, and filthy boy stood with bare feet upon the kerbstone, and cried damp matches.
From Flames by Robert Smythe Hichens
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