Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bruise caused by a stone; especially, a painful and persistent, bruise on the sole of the foot, commonly in the middle of the ball of the foot, due to walking barefooted; also, a bruise produced on the hand, as by ball-playing.
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Examples
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Give me the stone-bruise on my heel, the hat without a crown --
The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems George W. Doneghy
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Webster's blue backed, elementary spelling book, one thumb-paper, one stone-bruise, one sore toe, and Peter Parley's Travels.
Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales Robert L. Taylor
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Just now I've got a stone-bruise on my big toe, but I tell you I can get round pretty fast just the same.
Stories Worth Rereading Various
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The leaves of the Jamestown weed, mashed with cream, are good for a stone-bruise.
Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers Elizabeth E. Lea
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There are doctors doping people with powerful drugs, who couldn't tell whether a patient had a case of cholera-morbus or was afflicted with an incurable itch for office -- who have acquired their medical information from the almanacs and could not distinguish between a bunion and a stone-bruise or find the joints in a string of sausage with a search-warrant.
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After all perhaps he had better announce himself in some audible fashion since, secure in her supposed isolation, the other occupant of the bar proceeded to remove a silk stocking, which matched the cap in color, and to examine with absorbed interest what he supposed to be a stone-bruise on an absurdly small and pink heel.
The Tyranny of Weakness Charles Neville Buck 1904
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It often takes six days, three hours and eighteen minutes to gather one goat-feather, and when a man has it and takes it home it is about as useful and valuable to him as a stone-bruise on the back of his neck.
Goat-Feathers Ellis Parker Butler 1903
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"Got a thorn in your shoe, or a stone-bruise, or a chilblain?"
Vanguards of the Plains Margaret Hill McCarter 1899
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The hull gol-dinged world full o 'money ain't worth that there stone-bruise onto them little white feet o' yourn, Eve.
The Flaming Jewel 1899
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The hull gol-dinged world full o 'money ain't worth that there stone-bruise onto them little white feet o' yourn, Eve.
The Flaming Jewel 1899
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