crowstone

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

crow +‎ stone?

Noun[edit]

crowstone (countable and uncountable, plural crowstones)

  1. (UK, dialect) Ganister, a kind of sandstone.
    • 1866, Memoirs, page 67:
      Yoredale Sandstones […] Large quarries in the "crowstone," as the rock is locally calld, may also be seen in Ratcliffe Wood. […] along Hollin Lane, where the crowstone is again largely quarried.
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