Stone-throwing
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The action of throwing one or more stones, often as a form of aggression or assault, or with the intention of causing damage. uncountable
"Porcelain insulators, though generally successful, have proved vulnerable to malicious stone-throwing and particularly in bad weather they have been liable to fracture in flashover where there are many steam locomotive movements; [...]."
Example
More examples"Porcelain insulators, though generally successful, have proved vulnerable to malicious stone-throwing and particularly in bad weather they have been liable to fracture in flashover where there are many steam locomotive movements; [...]."
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