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free-stone

free-stone is the alternative spelling of freestone.

Meaning of freestone

Noun

freestone (countable and uncountable, plural freestones)

  1. Sedimentary rock: a type of stone that is composed of small particles and easily shaped, most commonly sandstone or limestone.
    • Mr Allworthy […] died immensely rich and built an hospital […] but had he done nothing more I should have left him to have recorded his own merit on some fair freestone over the door of that hospital.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
  2. (countable) A stone fruit having a stone (pit) that is relatively free of the flesh.

See all 5 meanings of freestone

Forms of free-stone

pluralfree-stones

Questions about free-stone

What is free-stone the alternative spelling of?
Free-stone is the alternative spelling of freestone.

Words near free-stone in the dictionary

  1. free-spiritedly
  2. free-spoken
  3. free-standing
  4. Free-Stater
  5. Free-Staters
  6. free-stone
  7. free-stones
  8. free-style
  9. free-swimming
  10. free-tailed bat
  11. free-tailed bats

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Adapted from Wiktionary: free-stone (page history and authors); freestone (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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