freestone

plural freestones

1. countableuncountablegeographySedimentary rock: a type of stone that is composed of small particles and easily shaped, most commonly sandstone or limestone.

   The exterior walls are of freestone, and have a smooth, neat appearance.

   1955 June, C. L. Mowat, “The Bristol & Portishead Pier & Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 378

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   Mr Allworthy […] died immensely rich and built an hospital […] but had he done nothing more I should have left him to have recorded his own merit on some fair freestone over the door of that hospital.

   1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

   It might, under all the circumstances above stated, have been a question with other builders, whether to import one shipload of costly jaspers, or twenty of chalk flints; and whether to build a small church faced with porphyry and paved with agate, or to raise a vast cathedral in freestone.

   1853, John Ruskin, “IV, St. Mark's”, in The Stones of Venice, volume II (The Sea-Stories), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, § XXVII, page 77

2. countableA stone fruit having a stone (pit) that is relatively free of the flesh.

plural Freestones

1. countableuncountableA surname from Old English.
2. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Sonoma County, California, United States.
3. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Freestone County, Texas, United States.