英和和英

語源

stone +‎ breaker

名詞

stonebreaker (複数形 stonebreakers)

1. A labourer who breaks stone.
   • 2021, “The Stonebreakers”, in Mubi‎^[1], archived from the original on 2023-04-25:

     In 1908, Argentinian stonebreakers went on what was to become the longest strike in the country’s history.

2. A machine for crushing or hammering stone.

参照

• 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary
• 'stonebreaker' apparently mistranscribed under stonebrearer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913