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pumie stone

pumie stone is the obsolete form of pumice stone.

Meaning of pumice stone

Noun

pumice stone (countable and uncountable, plural pumice stones)

  1. A piece of pumice.
    • in the midst a little riuer plaide / Emongst the pumy stones, which seemd to plaine / With gentle murmure, that his course they did restraine.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. Pumice (the substance).

Forms of pumie stone

pluralpumie stones

Questions about pumie stone

What is pumie stone the obsolete form of?
Pumie stone is the obsolete form of pumice stone.

Words near pumie stone in the dictionary

  1. pumices
  2. pumiciform
  3. pumicing
  4. pumicite
  5. pumicites
  6. pumie stone
  7. pumie stones
  8. pumies
  9. pumiliotoxin
  10. pumiliotoxins
  11. pumiloside

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