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kerb-stone

kerb-stone is the alternative form of kerbstone.

Meaning of kerbstone

Noun

kerbstone (plural kerbstones)

  1. (UK) A paving stone that forms part of a kerb.
    • You see this creature with her kerbstone English: the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days. Well, sir, in three months I could pass that girl off as a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party.1912 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act I, page 115

Forms of kerb-stone

pluralkerb-stones

Questions about kerb-stone

What is kerb-stone the alternative form of?
Kerb-stone is the alternative form of kerbstone.

Words near kerb-stone in the dictionary

  1. kerb ramps
  2. kerb stone
  3. kerb stones
  4. kerb weight
  5. kerb weights
  6. kerb-stone
  7. kerb-stones
  8. Kerbala
  9. kerbang
  10. kerbau
  11. kerbaus

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