- Stumbling-stone
- Stumbling-stone Stum"bling-stone`, n.
A stumbling-block.
[1913 Webster]
This stumbling-stone we hope to take away. --T. Burnet. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Stumbling-stone
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