freestone
See also: Freestone and free-stone
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɹiːstəʊn/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈfɹiːstoʊn/
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Noun
freestone (countable and uncountable, 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
- (countable) A stone fruit having a stone (pit) that is relatively free of the flesh.
Coordinate terms
- (stone fruit): clingstone
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