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gritstone

gritstone noun: a form of sedimentary rock, similar to sandstone but coarser.

Noun

gritstone (countable and uncountable, plural gritstones)

  1. A form of sedimentary rock, similar to sandstone but coarser.
    • So Tom went to go down; and first he went down three hundred feet of steep heather, mixed up with loose brown grindstone, as rough as a file […]1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby
    • Adjacent to the roundhouse, but a little further north towards Curzon Street, are the surprising remains of the wagon turntables for the goods shed. Unusually, these are made out of solid gritstone so survive pretty much intact.2020 April 8, Paul Bigland, “Rail's future revealing railway's past”, in Rail, page 38

Forms of gritstone

pluralgritstones

Origin of gritstone

From grit + stone.

Questions about gritstone

What does gritstone mean?
Gritstone means a form of sedimentary rock, similar to sandstone but coarser.
What part of speech is gritstone?
Gritstone is a noun.
What is the plural of gritstone?
The plural of gritstone is gritstones.

Words near gritstone in the dictionary

  1. gritrock
  2. grits
  3. grits one's teeth
  4. Gritsch
  5. gritsome
  6. gritstone
  7. gritstones
  8. gritted
  9. gritted one's teeth
  10. gritten
  11. gritter

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