slatestone
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]slatestone (countable and uncountable, plural slatestones)
- slate
- 2025 March 5, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Remembering Brunel's timber viaducts”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 58:
- It [St Pinnock Viaduct] has seven piers of roughly-dressed, coursed slatestone from Westwood quarry. […] Moorswater is another masonry replacement, consisting of seven tapering piers of rock-faced slatestone with eight semi-circular arches with granite long and short voussoirs.