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

Example Sentences

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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

A large stone roller was run over a flat stone.

From Stories of American Life and Adventure by Eggleston, Edward

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)

In Betūl the couple go seven times round a slab on which a stone roller is placed, with their clothes knotted together and holding in their hands a lighted lamp.

From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)

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