stone roller

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of stone roller¹

C19: so called because it pushes stones about in building its nest

Example Sentences

I ground the spices to a fine powder with the stone roller and churned the milk carefully.

From Literature

Few people are so poor as not to have a neatly-made stone roller on their roofs.

From Project Gutenberg

Meantime the six men, by climbing on each other's shoulders, scaled the castle wall, and by confused shouts and dragging of the stone roller to and fro over the roof they made the garrison believe that it was attacked by a large force, and it surrendered at discretion.

From Project Gutenberg

When morning comes, they take it from the jar, and spreading it on a stone bench, make it into paste with a stone roller.

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Then two other men came, and they were dragging a great heavy stone roller behind them.

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