destone
English
Verb
destone (third-person singular simple present destones, present participle destoning, simple past and past participle destoned)
- (transitive) To remove the stones from.
- 1988, R. J. Halley, R. J. Soffe, Primrose McConnell's The Agricultural Notebook, page 170:
- […] sandy soils may be ploughed in the spring and then destoned.
- 2002, Timothy Bewes, Reification, Or, The Anxiety of Late Capitalism, page 125:
- Certainly he misses the point — so much so that in addressing the issue at all the sensation is like finding oneself trying to destone a cherry with a spade.
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