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gritstones

gritstones is the plural of gritstone.

Meaning of gritstone

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

Questions about gritstones

What is gritstones the plural of?
Gritstones is the plural of gritstone.

Words near gritstones in the dictionary

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

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