freestone
See also: Freestone and free-stone
English
editEtymology
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edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɹiːstəʊn/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈfɹiːstoʊn/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -iːstəʊn
Noun
editfreestone (countable and uncountable, plural freestones)
- Sedimentary rock: a type of stone that is composed of small particles and easily shaped, most commonly sandstone or limestone.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
- Mr Allworthy […] died immensely rich and built an hospital […] but had he done nothing more I should have left him to have recorded his own merit on some fair freestone over the door of that hospital.
- 1853, John Ruskin, “IV, St. Mark's”, in The Stones of Venice, volume II (The Sea-Stories), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, § XXVII, page 77:
- It might, under all the circumstances above stated, have been a question with other builders, whether to import one shipload of costly jaspers, or twenty of chalk flints; and whether to build a small church faced with porphyry and paved with agate, or to raise a vast cathedral in freestone.
- (countable) A stone fruit having a stone (pit) that is relatively free of the flesh.
Coordinate terms
edit- (stone fruit): clingstone
Translations
editsedimentary rock, most commonly sandstone or limestone
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