stone

1) As a verb it described the actions of poachers who sought to stun or kill fish by hurling stones into a confined stretch of water.

1693 I see severall persons ... stoneing the water for catching and destroying of fish ... see William Holden with heapes of stones ... to throw into the river to beat the salmon out, Timble.

places Timble
dates 1693

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