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buhrstone

buhrstone is the alternative spelling of burrstone.

Meaning of burrstone

Noun

burrstone (countable and uncountable, plural burrstones)

  1. A tough, silicified limestone formerly used to make millstones, typified by the presence of multiple cavities that originally housed fossilized shells.
    Synonyms:
    buhr, burr millstone

Forms of buhrstone

pluralbuhrstones

Questions about buhrstone

What is buhrstone the alternative spelling of?
Buhrstone is the alternative spelling of burrstone.

Words near buhrstone in the dictionary

  1. Buhrman
  2. Buhrmans
  3. buhrmill
  4. buhrmills
  5. buhrs
  6. buhrstone
  7. buhrstones
  8. Buhuși
  9. BUI
  10. buibui
  11. buibuis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: buhrstone (page history and authors); burrstone (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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