[f. STONE sb. + -ER1.]
† 1. One skilled in precious stones: = LAPIDARY sb. 1 b. Obs.
c. 1440. Gesta Rom., lxv. 286 (Harl. MS.). Gwido … went to a stoner, and saide to hym, ‘good man, I pray þe tell me þe vertu of þis ston.’
2. In comb. with prefixed numeral: A person weighing, or a horse carrying, (so many) stone (STONE sb. 14).
1862. Whyte-Melville, Inside Bar, iii. 264. Your nags is hardly thirteen-stoners, sir—not in a country like this.
1896. Conan Doyle, Rodney Stone, xvii. 293. ‘Your man brought the scale down at thirteen-three and Harrison at thirteen-eight.’
‘He’s a fifteen-stoner from the loins upwards,’ cried Dutch Sam, from his corner.
