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moorstone

moorstone noun: a type of English granite, found mostly in Cornwall.

Noun

moorstone (countable and uncountable, plural moorstones)

  1. A type of English granite, found mostly in Cornwall.
    • Most of them are what is called moorstone, a kind of granite, but which is so damp that it must, when built in the wall of a house, be lined with brick or other stone.1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 176

Forms of moorstone

pluralmoorstones

Origin of moorstone

From moor + stone.

Questions about moorstone

What does moorstone mean?
Moorstone means a type of English granite, found mostly in Cornwall.
What part of speech is moorstone?
Moorstone is a noun.
What is the plural of moorstone?
The plural of moorstone is moorstones.

Words near moorstone in the dictionary

  1. Moorside
  2. moorsman
  3. moorsmen
  4. Moorsom
  5. Moorsoms
  6. moorstone
  7. moorstones
  8. Moorswater
  9. Moorthorpe
  10. moortop
  11. moortops

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