ganister

English

Alternative forms

gannister

Etymology

Unknown

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡænɪstə(ɹ)/

Noun

ganister (countable and uncountable, plural ganisters)

A hard, fine-grained sandstone, used in manufacturing silica bricks for lining furnaces.
- 1991,, Town of Claysburg - Refractories Company Town , Historic American Buildings Survey, page 2:
  Like those in southern Huntingdon County, the ridges of southern Blair County were often covered with ganister.

Translations

hard, fine-grained sandstone

Russian: га́нистер m (gánister)

Anagrams

Tangiers, Tasering, Tigranes, angriest, angrites, angstier, astringe, gantries, granites, inert gas, ingrates, rangiest, reasting, stearing, tasering, tearings

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