rockstonen.

?1545 J. Bale 2nd Pt. Image Both Churches ii. sig. Niij These stande euermore on the glassye see, they sett sure fotynge vpon the rocke stone.

?1574 T. Hill Contempl. Myst. f. 17^v In Archadia..is a water named Nonacris, which is founde on the hilles, sweating or distilling most colde humours out of the rocke stone.

1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 241 Saxum,..Rock~stone.

1748 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. I. 447 White or whitish Rock Stone, Sympexium albidum.

1795 J. Phillips Gen. Hist. Inland Navigation (new ed.) Add. 172 Coals, coak, iron, iron-stone, lime-stone, rock-stone, bricks, tiles, and other minerals.

1808 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. V. 517 Rock-stone, formed of mica and quartz [is found in Colonsay].

1854 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 4 411 And outside of these most formidable gates I set up another structure of rock-stone, each stone eleven cubits broad, twenty high and sixty thick.

1860 Jrnl. Brit. Archæol. Assoc. Sept. 207 The whole were covered with large flat stones covered with a quantity of coarse rock-stone.

1901 Eccl. Rec. State N.Y. I. 165 He entered..into a contract..with John and Richard Ogden, of Stamfort, who engaged to build a church of rock-stone.

1973 Anatolian Stud. 23 25 A wide crosswall piled up of re-used blocks of local rockstone at the foot of the staircase.

1979 E. Lovelace Dragon can't Dance viii. 123 They scrimp and save and whore and work and thief to drag out of the hard rockstone and dirt to show the world they is people.

1997 P. Melville Ventriloquist's Tale (1998) ii. 170 There is a certain sort of black rock-stone to be found on the banks of savannah creeks.

1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes III. iv. xiv. 816 Both I and others did plainly see vpon one of them a huge rocke stone, of the weight of three hundred pounds or thereabouts.

1765 Museum Rusticum 4 146 In one of which [kilns] I burn chalk cut in pieces, and the other small rock-stones.

1847 P. H. Gosse & R. Hill Birds of Jamaica 274 The youth picked up a ‘rock-stone’, as pebbles are called in Jamaica, and delivered the missile with so skilful an aim, that the bird dropped to the ground.

1863 H. M. Waddell Twenty-nine Years in W. Indies & Central Afr. ix. 182 The poor horses were plunging every step among rock stones, tree roots, and mud holes.

1975 T. Callender It so Happen 118 Mr Straker pelt a rockstone at she.

1987 M. Collins Angel ii. 21 The man..held a huge rock-stone in each hand.

1991 P. Marshall Daughters (1992) iii. v. 304 He's the one that pelt the rockstone at the gate that time when the PM came home.