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rockstone

rockstone noun: a pebble.

Noun

rockstone (plural rockstones)

  1. (Jamaica) A pebble.
    • Without wasting many words, however, the youth picked up a "rockstone," as pebbles are called in Jamaica, and delivered the missile with so skilful an aim, that the bird dropped to the ground, […]1847, Philip Henry Gosse, Richard Hill, The Birds of Jamaica, page 274
    • She learned her art by breaking / hard rockstones.1992, Lorna Goodison, “Praise to the mother of Jamaican art”, in Poems

Proper noun capitalized: Rockstone

Rockstone

  1. A town in Upper Demerara-Berbice, Guyana.

Forms of rockstone

pluralrockstones

Origin of rockstone

From rock + stone.

Questions about rockstone

What does rockstone mean?
Rockstone means a pebble.
What part of speech is rockstone?
Rockstone can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of rockstone?
The plural of rockstone is rockstones.

Words near rockstone in the dictionary

  1. rockstacks
  2. rockstar
  3. rockstardom
  4. rockstars
  5. rocksteady
  6. rockstone
  7. rockstones
  8. rockstop
  9. rockstops
  10. Rockstroh
  11. Rockstrohs

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