freestone
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See also: free-stone
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
freestone (plural freestones)
- A type of stone that is composed of small particles and easily shaped, such as 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.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- A stone fruit having a stone (pit) that is relatively free of the flesh.
Coordinate terms[edit]
- (stone fruit): clingstone
