stonerock

See also: Stonerock

English

Alternative forms

  • stone-rock, stone rock

Etymology

From Middle English *stonrock, ston-roche, stanroch, from Old English stānrocc. By surface analysis, stone +‎ rock.

Noun

stonerock (plural stonerocks)

  1. A projecting rock or crag; a large boulder.
    • 1967, H. E. Hallam, ‎H. P. R. Finberg, ‎Joan Thirsk, The Agrarian History of England and Wales, volume 2:
      The late settlement of the flanks of Crowborough Beacon, the edges of Ashdown Forest, the narrow defile of the Dudwell valley in Burwash and the 'stonerock' fields in Eridge and Rotherfield are examples of the colonization of this least workable of land.
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