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bluestoning

bluestoning is the present participle and gerund of bluestone.

Meaning of bluestone

Verb

bluestone (third-person singular simple present bluestones, present participle bluestoning, simple past and past participle bluestoned)

  1. (transitive) To treat or dose with copper sulfate.
    • Bluestoning at any time of the year will destroy a number of snails […]1948, The Tasmanian Journal of Agriculture, volumes 19-22, page 20

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Questions about bluestoning

What is bluestoning the present participle and gerund of?
Bluestoning is the present participle and gerund of bluestone.

Words near bluestoning in the dictionary

  1. bluestockingism
  2. bluestockings
  3. bluestone
  4. bluestoned
  5. bluestones
  6. bluestoning
  7. bluestreak
  8. bluestreaks
  9. bluestripe
  10. bluestripes
  11. blueswoman

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bluestoning (page history and authors); bluestone (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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