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

Then two other men came, and they were dragging a great heavy stone roller behind them.

From The Doers by Hopkins, William John

A large stone roller was run over a flat stone.

From Stories of American Life and Adventure by Eggleston, Edward

In a field beyond, a small donkey was drawing a stone roller three feet long and one foot in diameter, firming the crests of narrow, sharp, recently formed ridges, two at a time.

From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram)

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)