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burstone

burstone 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 burstone

pluralburstones

Questions about burstone

What is burstone the alternative spelling of?
Burstone is the alternative spelling of burrstone.

Words near burstone in the dictionary

  1. burstings
  2. burstlet
  3. burstlets
  4. Burston
  5. Burston and Shimpling
  6. burstone
  7. burstones
  8. Burstons
  9. Burstow
  10. bursts
  11. bursts a blood vessel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: burstone (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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