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ˈkerb-stone
Also kirb-.
[kerb n.]
1. a. An edging of stone about the top of a well. b. One of the stones forming the kerb of a path; also, the kerb itself.
a.1706Phillips, Kerb-Stone, a Stone laid round the Brim of a Well.
b. [1795Statist. Acc. Scot. XVI. 614 From 600 to 800 tons of kerb and carriage-way stones. Ibid. 628 Kirb and carriage-way stones.] 1815W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXXVII. 134 He calls the edge of the foot-pavement the kerb-stone instead of curb-stone. 1830J. W. Croker in C. Papers 18 Sept. (1884), If one's foot had slipped at the edge of the kerbstone. 1882Besant All Sorts xxxv, On the kerbstone the little girls are dancing.
2. attrib., as kerb-stone broker (U.S.), a broker, not a member of the stock exchange, who transacts business in the streets; kerb-stone merchant, a street dealer.
1860,1886Kerbstone-broker [see curbstone]. 1896Daily News 5 Aug. 3/5 Among the kerbstone brokers to-day Diamond Match were sold at 150. 1899Westm. Gaz. 18 Feb. 6/1 It seems an anomaly that gentlemen of the Stock Exchange should have to sink to the level of kerbstone merchants. |