destoneとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

destone (third-person singular simple present destones, present participle destoning, simple past and past participle destoned)

1. (transitive) To remove the stones from.
   • 1988, R. J. Halley, R. J. Soffe, Primrose McConnell's The Agricultural Notebook, page 170:

     […] sandy soils may be ploughed in the spring and then destoned.

   • 2002, Timothy Bewes, Reification, Or, The Anxiety of Late Capitalism, page 125:

     Certainly he misses the point — so much so that in addressing the issue at all the sensation is like finding oneself trying to destone a cherry with a spade.

   • 2015, Chiadikobi Levi Emmanuel, Living in Supernatural Faith‎:

     Fasting tills the heart, destones it, and fertilizes it for better faith production.

派生語

アナグラム

• Tenedos, denotes, nodeset