curb-stone

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

A border to a pavement, consisting of stone slabs set on edge, which form the separation between it and the carriage-way.


I will sit here as unmoved as a curb-stone.--Margaret, p. 82.

Here the watchman struck his club against the curb-stone.--Pickings from the Picayune, p. 31.

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