Emily Dickinson Lexicon

STUM'BLING-BLOCK, or STUM'BLING-STONE, n. [stumble and block or stone.]

Any cause of stumbling; that which causes to err. We preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness. – 1 Cor. i. This stumbling-stone we hope to take away. – Burnet.