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Beer stone|bɪə stəʊn|
(Also with lower-case initial letter.)
A kind of limestone used in building, obtained from Beer Head in Devonshire, England.
1871Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. XXVII. 98 Cliff west of Beer Head... An old quarry in the high cliff above the western end of the great landslip is in what I take to be the ‘Beer stone’. 1894Daily News 16 Mar. 5/2 A handsome building of white brick and beer-stone. 1910Encycl. Brit. V. 806/2 The more important building stones are ‘Beer stone’, from Beer Head in Devonshire [etc.]. |