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hoar-stone
Forms: 1 hár stán, 3 hor ston, 6–8 hore-, 7 hoore-, 9 hoar-stone, Sc. hair-, hare stane.
[In OE. two words: see hoar a. and stone.]
1. lit. A hoar, i.e. grey or ancient stone (? an ancient stone grey with lichen).
Beowulf (Z.) 887 He under harne stan, æþelinges bearn. Ibid. 2745 Nu ðu lungre geong hord sceawian under harne stan. 971Blickl. Hom. 209 He þær ᵹeseah ofer ðæm wætere sumne harne stan.
2. spec.
a. A stone (ancient or grey with lichen), frequently mentioned in charters as marking a boundary line; an ancient boundary stone, merestone. (See hoar a. 3.)
847Charter of æthelwulf in O.E. Texts 434 Ðonon on ðone healdan weᵹ wið huitan stanes, ðonon to ðæm beorᵹe ðe mon hateð æt ðæm holne, ðonon an haran stan. a1000in Heming's Chartulary (1723) 348 Of ᵹytinges æwylme on norðdene on þone grenan weᵹ, þ[an] on þane haran stan, of ðam haran stane andlang grenan weᵹes on scepe clif. c1195in Archæol. (1832) XXV. 55 Unam scilicet sub le Harestan. 1298Ibid., Et sic directe usque le Horeston in Twychenylde Grene. a1300Ibid. 58 Ad Haresteines et sic usque ad Depe⁓dale. 1503in Hearne Johannis Glastoniensis Chron. (1726) 303 Inter Dominium de Andresey & Dominium de Stoke seu Dreycote, usque ad la Hore Stone. a1831W. Hamper in Archæol. (1832) XXV. 30 The Hoar-stone is consequently nothing more than the stone of memorial or land-mark, describing the boundary of property. 1849Kemble Sax. in Eng. I. 52 note, Artificial or natural stone posts are implied by the constantly recurring háran stánas, græᵹan stánas, hoary or grey stones. 1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) II. iv. vii. 375 Hoare-stones, or landmarks of the fifth century.
b. An ancient stone associated with some event or tradition; a stone of memorial; a standing stone.
1666in Hearne R. Brunne's Chron. (1810) 472 A stone of 8 foot high above ground..It is now called, in the full of the mouth, hoore-stone, according to the dialect of Sommersett. 1808Scott Marm. iv. xxv. note, The royal standard is traditionally said to have been displayed from the Hare Stane, a high stone, now built into the wall, on the left hand of the high-way leading towards Braid. 1812Archæol. XVI. 361 The largest stone, at the east end, has been long known in that County, by the name of the Hoar Stone. a1831W. Hamper in Archæol. (1832) XXV. 25 In many parts of Great Britain are to be seen upright rude Pillars or massive blocks of stone which in England are called Hoar-Stones..in Scotland..Hare-Stane. 1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. 92 The Hare Stane on the Borough Moor of Edinburgh. Ibid. (1863) I. v. 137 A hoare-stone or Stone of Memorial.
c. Hence very frequent as a place-name.
See a list in Archæologia (1832) XXV. 52. |