Word.ws English Dictionary

marlstone

marlstone noun: marl when hardened into stone.

Noun

marlstone (countable and uncountable, plural marlstones)

  1. Marl when hardened into stone.
    • The steady climb eastwards has lifted us from the Soar Valley at Leicester into the marlstone (or ironstone) country of the Middle Lias which, at this point, forms a ridge of high ground over 700ft above sea level, […]1961 July, C. P. Walker, P. H. V. Banyard, “Leicester's Belgrave Road branch lives another year”, in Trains Illustrated, page 414

Forms of marlstone

pluralmarlstones

Origin of marlstone

From marl + stone.

Questions about marlstone

What does marlstone mean?
Marlstone means marl when hardened into stone.
What part of speech is marlstone?
Marlstone is a noun.
What is the plural of marlstone?
The plural of marlstone is marlstones.

Words near marlstone in the dictionary

  1. Marlowisms
  2. Marlows
  3. marlpit
  4. marlpits
  5. marls
  6. marlstone
  7. marlstones
  8. marlu
  9. marlus
  10. marly
  11. marm

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: marlstone (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “marlstone.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/marlstone. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.