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pumy stone

pumy 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 pumy stone

pluralpumy stones

Questions about pumy stone

What is pumy stone the obsolete form of?
Pumy stone is the obsolete form of pumice stone.

Words near pumy stone in the dictionary

  1. pumpwoods
  2. pumpy
  3. pumsae
  4. pumse
  5. pumy
  6. pumy stone
  7. pumy stones
  8. Pumé
  9. pun
  10. pun intended
  11. pun-off

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