curbstone

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: curb=stone

CIDE DICTIONARY

curbstone, n. 

 A stone set along a margin as a limit and protection, as along the edge of a sidewalk next the roadway; an edge stone.  [1913 Webster]

Curbstone broker. See under Broker.

THESAURUS

curbstone

Tarmac, Tarvia, asphalt, bitumen, bituminous macadam, blacktop, border stone, brick, cement, cobble, cobblestone, concrete, curb, curbing, edgestone, flag, flagging, flagstone, gravel, kerb, kerbstone, macadam, pavement, pavestone, paving, paving stone, road metal, stone, tarmacadam, tile, washboard

ROGET THESAURUS

curbstone

Limit

N limit, boundary, bounds, confine, enclave, term, bourn, verge, curbstone, but, pale, reservation, termination, terminus, stint, frontier, precinct, marches, backwoods, boundary line, landmark, line of demarcation, line of circumvallation, pillars of Hercules, Rubicon, turning point, ne plus ultra, sluice, floodgate, definite, conterminate, conterminable, terminal, frontier, bordering, thus far, thus far and no further, stick to the reservation, go beyond the pale, Special.