stone crusher

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a machine that breaks stone or rock into smaller pieces, especially for road building, concrete, quarrying, or ore processing

   The quarry fed blasted rock into a stone crusher before sorting the aggregate by size.

A compound of stone and crusher. Crusher is the instrument noun formed from crush + -er. During the nineteenth century, stone crusher became the standard name for machines, including jaw crushers, that reduced quarried rock for roads, concrete, and ore processing; both open and hyphenated spellings are historically attested.

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