Meaning of "rocking stone" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF ROCKING STONE

rocking stone

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ROCKING STONE

Rocking stone is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ROCKING STONE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Rocking stone

Rocking stones are large stones that are so finely balanced that the application of just a small force causes them to rock. They are found throughout the world. Some are man-made megaliths, but others are natural, often left by glaciers. Logan or rocking stones are known in Scotland sometimes as clach-bràth. They marked locations where Scottish open-air courts would take place. A clach-bràth is sometimes known as a judgment stone. The reason that courts were near logan stones is that the movement of stones in such formations was used to determine the guilt or innocence of those accused of serious crimes in ancient times.

Definition of rocking stone in the English dictionary

The definition of rocking stone in the dictionary is a boulder so delicately poised that it can be rocked Also called: logan, logan-stone.

TRANSLATION OF ROCKING STONE

Find out the translation of rocking stone to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of rocking stone from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «rocking stone» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 摇石
• Translator English - Spanish: piedra movediza
• English: rocking stone
• Translator English - Hindi: कमाल पत्थर
• Translator English - Arabic: الحجر هزاز
• Translator English - Russian: качалка камень
• Translator English - Portuguese: balanço de pedra
• Translator English - Bengali: শিলা পাথর
• Translator English - French: pierre à bascule
• Translator English - Malay: Batu goyang
• Translator English - German: Schaukel Stein
• Translator English - Japanese: ロッキング石
• Translator English - Korean: 흔들 바위
• Translator English - Javanese: Rocking rock
• Translator English - Vietnamese: rocking đá
• Translator English - Tamil: ராக்கிங் கல்
• Translator English - Marathi: कमाल धारण दगड
• Translator English - Turkish: Sallanan taş
• Translator English - Italian: pietra a dondolo
• Translator English - Polish: kamień na biegunach
• Translator English - Ukrainian: качалка камінь
• Translator English - Romanian: piatră balansoar
• Translator English - Greek: λικνίζοντας πέτρα
• Translator English - Afrikaans: wieg klip
• Translator English - Swedish: rocking sten
• Translator English - Norwegian: rocking stein

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROCKING STONE»

Discover the use of rocking stone in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rocking stone and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The American Journal of Science and Arts

On a Rocking Stone in Durham, New-Hampshire. By. Jacob B. Moore. Concord, JV. H. Oct. 22, 1823. TO PROFESSOfl S1LL1MAN. Sir — Having noticed in the last number of the "American Journal of Science" an account of a Rocking Stone in ...

‎1822

American Journal of Science

Art. VII.— Notice of a Rocking Stone, in Savoy, Massachtf setts, with a drawing, by Dk. J. Pouter. (Communicated to the Berkshire Lyceum.) In a late excursion from Plainfield, a little before reaching the village in Savoy, we turned to the south ...

‎1825

Caledonia, Or an Account, Historical and Topographic, of ...

Among the vast variety of Druid monuments in North-Britain, one of the most interesting is the rocking stone, winch seems to have existed, in every country, and in every period (o). That those singular stones are Druid remains cannot easily be ...

George Chalmers, 1807

Cornwall Its Mines and Miners

The remarkable natural phenomenon attending it is, that it is balanced on the pivot of rock protruding from the mass below it so exactly, that it can be rocked by the application of some force; and hence it is called the “ Logan or Rocking stone.

J. R. Leifchild, 2013

Ion: John Smith, Rocking Stone, Bishop of the Isles, Iona ...

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Caledonia, Or an Account, Historical and Topographical, of ...

... worship, or manners. Within their country, there is an object of their divination, perhaps, rather than of worship. On the shoulder of one of the Kells range of hills, there is a very remarkable rocking stone : it consists of an immense block ...

George Chalmers, 1824

Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, ...

Some remarkable remains of this kind occur in the parish of Kiritmichael in Perthshire, where there is an immense rocking stone standing on a flat-topped eminence in the vicinity of a large body of Druidical remains. Opposite to the manse of ...

‎1823

Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity

PLATE XlI. No I. is a south view of Rowter rocks, where (a) is a rock bason. The pillar on the top was set up a few years ago to support a weather-cock. No 2. is a south-west view of ROWter rocks, with the rocking stone marked (b); the ...

‎1782

ARCANA OF SCIENCE AND ARTS: OR AN ANNUAL REGISTER OF USEFUL ...

NATURAL ROCKING-STONE. ' Dr. S. Hibbert has communicated to Brewster's Journal an interesting paper on a Natural Rocking Stone of Granite, near the village ot Loubeyrat, in the province of Auvergne, France. His description is as follows ...

‎1831

Arcana of Science and Art, Or an Annual Register of Popular ...

NATURAL ROCKING-STONE. DR. S. HIBBERT has communicated to Brewster's Journal an interesting paper on a Natural Rocking Stone of Granite, near the village of Loubeyrat, in the province of Anvergne, France. His description is as ...

John Timbs, 1831