stone roller

British  

noun

1. a small silvery freshwater cyprinid fish, Campostoma anomalum, of the eastern US, having a narrow black stripe on the dorsal and anal fins

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Etymology

Origin of stone roller

C19: so called because it pushes stones about in building its nest

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stone roller

I ground the spices to a fine powder with the stone roller and churned the milk carefully.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

Few people are so poor as not to have a neatly-made stone roller on their roofs.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

The old-time stone roller was an instrument of torture, and almost wholly unsuited for lawn work as suggested.

From Making a Lawn by Doogue, Luke Joseph

A large stone roller was run over a flat stone.

From Stories of American Life and Adventure by Eggleston, Edward

For the purpose of grinding it, they use a sort of stone roller, with which it is crushed, and rolled into a bowl placed below the stone.

From Life in Mexico by Calderón de la Barca, Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis)