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paramoudra Geol.|pærəˈmuːdrə|
[Suggested by H. Norton (1881 Proc. Norwich Geol. Soc. I. 132) to be Anglo-Irish corruption of Erse peura muireach (ˈpɛrə ˈmurjəx) ‘sea pears’, from their shape, and occurrence on the beach below chalk cliffs.]
A name given to large flints, pear-shaped, barrel-shaped, or cylindrical (sometimes 3 ft. long and 1 ft. thick), perforated with a central axial cavity, found standing erect in the chalk of the N.E. of Ireland (where the name is local) and of Norfolk (where known as pot-stones).
1817Buckland in Trans. Geol. Soc. IV. 413 These singular fossils..are known at Belfast by the name of Paramoudra, a word which I..shall adopt because I find it thus appropriated. They have, I believe, never yet been found in England, except at Whittingham near to Norwich. 1887H. B. Woodward Geol. Eng. & Wales (ed. 2) 399 These flints are known as ‘Pot-stones’ or ‘Paramoudras’. Ibid., The most celebrated exposure of Paramoudras was in a pit at Horstead on the river Bure..in 1838. |