moorstone

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noun

A type of English granite, found mostly in Cornwall.

First used 15th c.Scrabble 11
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Meanings

nounmoorstone (countable and uncountable, plural moorstones)

plural moorstones

  1. countableuncountableA type of English granite, found mostly in Cornwall.First known use 15th c.

    Most of them are what is called moorstone, a kind of granite, but which is so damp that it must, when built in the wall of a house, be lined with brick or other stone.

    1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 176

Origin

From moor + stone.

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