Citations:hunger stone

English citations of hunger stone

(British, regional) [A type of quartz stone (?)]
- [1857, “Hunger-stone”, in Thomas Wright, compiler, Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English, […] In two Volumes, volumes II (G–Z), London: Henry G[eorge] Bohn, […], →OCLC, page 587, column 2:
  Hunger-stone, s[ubstantive] A quartz pebble. Linc[olnshire].]
- 1870, Edward Baines, “Lancaster Parish”, in John Harland, Brooke Herford, editors, The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster, new revised and improved edition, volume II, London: George Routledge and Sons; Manchester: L. C. Gent, →OCLC, page 585:
  The stone here is full of those hard flinty particles which constitute what is called Hunger Stone, of which small mill-stones, similar to ancient Roman querns, were formerly made.