Definition of "kerbstones" []

• Plural form of kerbstone. (noun)

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• "One evening, driving through an area dominated by paramilitaries, with lurid murals on gable ends and kerbstones painted red, white and blue, there was encouragement on the radio."
• "Ireland is perhaps the one place where the name of Sir Humphrey still comes with a chill, famed as he was there for decapitating the corpses of rebels against Queen Elizabeth's rule and laying the heads like kerbstones along the path to his tent."
• "Some segments of road have long rock alignments along the shoulders, which seem to be kerbstones set into the backfill, while others have numerous post holes dug into bedrock outside the kerbstones – presumably to accommodate some kind of contraption for pulling and prising the statue and its framework forward in places … Such features seem most common where the roadway slopes upwards."