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backstone

backstone is the alternative form of bakestone.

Meaning of bakestone

Noun

bakestone (plural bakestones)

  1. Synonym of baking stone.
    Synonyms:
    baking stone
  2. Synonym of Welsh cake.
    Synonyms:
    Welsh cake

Noun

backstone (plural backstones)

  1. A stone at the rear of something.
    • […] the backstones of the burial-chambers were a deep red.2000, Aubrey Burl, The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany, page 225
    • Backstones in an intact tomb normally function to support the capstone and to define the rear end of the chamber.2008, Tatjana Kytmannow, Portal Tombs in the Landscape, page 39

Forms of backstone

pluralbackstones

Questions about backstone

What does backstone mean?
Backstone means a stone at the rear of something.
What is backstone the alternative form of?
Backstone is the alternative form of bakestone.
What part of speech is backstone?
Backstone is a noun.
What is the plural of backstone?
The plural of backstone is backstones.

Words near backstone in the dictionary

  1. backstitched
  2. backstitches
  3. backstitching
  4. backstock
  5. backstocks
  6. backstone
  7. backstones
  8. backstop
  9. backstopped
  10. backstopper
  11. backstoppers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: backstone (page history and authors); bakestone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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