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Kerb-stone means (British spelling) Alternative form of kerbstone..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(British spelling) Alternative form of kerbstone..
Across the entrance to the chamber there may be either a kerb–stone or a sillstone. A kerb–stone (a stone set on edge) is placed immediately behind the portal stones between the ends of the first two orthostats of the chamber.
Along the kerb-stone, itinerant vendors of prints, and stain-cleaning pastes, and mosaic gold chains, and studs, display their merchandise; and round the corner, near the tavern door, the Italian boy grinds his pianoorgan in dumb show.
He snatches away the piece of sacking that is supposed to retain the caloric in the loins of his horse, goes through a series of evolutions in order to bring his cab alongside the kerb-stone, a process which could not be adequately described without the aid of diagrams, and which the uninitiated might consider was for the purpose of driving the horse in at the open door of the vehicle, instead of putting the passenger there.
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Kerb-stone means (British spelling) Alternative form of kerbstone..
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Across the entrance to the chamber there may be either a kerb–stone or a sillstone. A kerb–stone (a stone set on edge) is placed immediately behind the portal stones between the ends of the first two orthostats of the chamber.
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