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chalkstones

chalkstones is the plural of chalkstone.

Meaning of chalkstone

Noun

chalkstone (plural chalkstones)

  1. (obsolete) A mass or piece of chalk.
    • [W]hen he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 27:9
  2. A chalk-like concretion, consisting mainly of urate of sodium, found in those affected with gout; a tophus.
    • [T]he thoughts of his breeding Gout so fast shocks me: it has beside all the rest made a Deposit in the Great Toe—I mean in the Joint, as if intending a Chalkstone.1794 January 23, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Thraliana

Questions about chalkstones

What is chalkstones the plural of?
Chalkstones is the plural of chalkstone.

Words near chalkstones in the dictionary

  1. chalks something up to experience
  2. chalks up
  3. chalks up to
  4. chalkstick fracture
  5. chalkstone
  6. chalkstones
  7. chalkstony
  8. chalkstripe
  9. chalkstripes
  10. chalkware
  11. chalkwares

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