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moorstone

English

Etymology

From moor +? stone.

Noun

moorstone (countable and uncountable, plural moorstones)

  1. A type of English granite, found mostly in Cornwall. [from 15th c.]
    • 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 176:
      Most of them are what is called moorstone, a kind of granite, but which is so damp that it must, when built in the wall of a house, be lined with brick or other stone.

Anagrams

  • room tones

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doorstone

English

Etymology

door +? stone

Noun

doorstone (plural doorstones)

  1. (dated) The stone forming a threshold; a doorstep.

Anagrams

  • oreodonts, sonotrode

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