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Definition of Rubstone
1. n. A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.
Definition of Rubstone
1. Noun. A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rubstone
1. a whetstone [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rubstone
Literary usage of Rubstone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Leather Manufacture: A Practical Handbook of Tanning, Currying, and Chrome by Alexander Watt (1906)
"The method of giving an edge to this tool, which is remarkable, is thus described
by Ure: " This instrument is taken to the rubstone and ground to a ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1878)
"14 A brush sithe and grasse sithe, with rifle to stand, a cradle for barlie, with
rubstone and sand : Sharpe sikle and weeding hooke, haie fork and rake, ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1905)
"We pass many arable fields, in which sunburnt men and women are hoeing and weeding.
There is a persistent odour of new-mown hay, and the melody of rubstone ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... crow-bar, pick-axe, and rammer, together with a hod and spade for his labourer.
Besides these there are sundry others, as an axe, saw, and rubstone, ..."
5. History of the English Landed Interest: Its Customs, Laws and Agriculture by Russell M. (Russell Montague) Garnier (1908)
"Sling for woman, ) to scare Bow for boy, ) rooks. Carter's whip. Brush sith, )
with rifle (ie Grass sith, ) handle). Barley cradle. rubstone. Sharp sickle. ..."
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