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putting-stone
(ˈpʊtɪŋ-, Sc. ˈpʌtɪŋstəʊn)
[f. putting vbl. n.1 8.]
A heavy stone used in the athletic exercise of putting.
17..Pope (J.), In some parts of Scotland, stones..are laid at the gates of great houses, which they call putting stones, for trials of strength. 1771Pennant Tour Scot. in 1769, 214 Antient sports of the Highlanders..retained are, throwing the putting-stone, or stone of strength (Cloch neart), as they call it, which occasions an emulation who can throw a weighty one the farthest. 1863W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting 221 Played quoits..and got through the time with the putting-stone. |