单词 | heath-stone |
释义 | > as lemmasheath-stone heath-stone n. see quots. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > types of sandstone for building heath-stone1447 brownstone1780 Mansfield1842 pietra serena1873 1447–8 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 399 Ragge hethstones and Flints to be purveid for the seid werkes. 1813 G. Robertson Agric. Surv. Kincardine 3 (Jam.) There is a variety..known under the name of Heathens or heath-stone, and is I think what is otherwise called Gneiss. 1860–4 Dict. Archit. (Archit. Publ. Soc.) Heath-stone, a name given by builders to a description of sandstone that occurs in irregular masses in the Bagshot sands. < as lemmas |
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