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▪ I. stoney dial.|ˈstəʊnɪ|
Also Sc. staney, stanie; stonie.
[Var. stony a.]
A child's coloured marble made of stone or a stone-like material.
1856N. & Q. 2nd Ser. I. 283/2 Stone marbles are called stoneys, and clay ones commoneys, though Dutch alleys are only stoneys enamelled. 1868Little Corporal May 67/3 Chinies, Stonies, and Agates, some large and some small. 1885‘J. Strathesk’ More Bits from Blinkbonny (ed. 2) ii. 33 Those played with were called ‘taas’, and consisted of ‘marbles, stanies, frenchies, moral-leggers’, etc. 1919W. Wingate Poems 74 Reddies and stanies for ‘moshie’ or ‘ring’. 1956G. E. Evans Ask Fellows who cut Hay xxiv. 215 Single marbles were placed in a long line, as many marbles as there were players... The player stood at the end of the line, an agreed distance from the first marble, or stoney as it was called. 1965Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) 13 Apr. 6/4 A good ‘staney’, a hard stone boolie which could be hurled against the school wall without breaking.
▪ II. stoney
var. of stony a. and v. |