stone-throwing

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stone-throwing

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  1. uncountable The action of throwing one or more stones, often as a form of aggression or assault, or with the intention of causing damage. 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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@misc{stone_throwing_2026,
  title = {stone-throwing},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/stone-throwing},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}